Delighted to have been part of the doctoral thesis committee that today evaluated Inventando Filipinas: Discurso colonial en la literatura española de finales del siglo XIX (1876-1894) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Even more delighted to have acted, a few years ago now, as academic matchmaker between Cristina Guillén, the thesis author, and my colleague Rocío Ortuño, one of the thesis co-directors, during one of our ALTER seminars.