Kira Mahamud-Angulo (PhD) is a lecturer in the Department of History of Education and Comparative Education at the Faculty of Education of the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, UNED (National University of Distance Education) since 2008, in Madrid, Spain. Her research topics include history of education, education policies, material (textbooks) and immaterial school culture, life histories and school memory, sociology of emotions and methodology. She is a research member of the MANES Research Centre, specialised in textbook research, and the Director of a Bilateral Cooperation University-Company Agreement between UNED and the SM publisher Group Foundation.