Jo Labanyi FBA (born 1946) is Professor Emerita of Spanish at New York University.
[1][2] She specialises in the study of Spanish literature and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Labanyi studied for her undergraduate degree at Oxford University, graduating with a BA in Spanish in 1967.
[2] She was director of the Institute of Romance Studies at the University of London from 1997 to 2002.
[1] Labanyi was the founding editor of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies.