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Jerónimo Arellano is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature at Brandeis University. He is the author of Magical Realism and the History of Emotions in Latin America (Bucknell University Press, 2015) and the editor of “Comparative Media Studies in Latin America” (2016), a special issue of Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. He is currently working on a book on Latin/x American screenwriting, its cultural history and creative practice.

Adriana J. Bergero (University of California at Los Angeles) has published El Debate político: Modernidad, poder y disidencia en Yo el Supremo de Augusto Roa Bastos (1994); Haciendo camino: Pactos de la escritura en la obra de Jorge Luis Borges (1999); Memoria colectiva y políticas de olvido: Argentina y Uruguay (1997, with Fernando Reati); (1970–1990) Estudios literarios/Estudios culturales (2005, with Jorge Ruffi nelli). She has published on cultural studies with a focus on the Southern Cone, urban and sensuous geography, gender studies, and postcolonial studies. Her Intersecting Tango: Cultural Geographies of Buenos Aires, 1900–1930 is forthcoming.

Orlando Betancor is an associate professor at Barnard College/Columbia University. He received his BA in Philosophy from the Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay) in 1997 and his PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish) from the University of Michigan in 2005. Before joining the Barnard faculty he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California (2005–2008) and he also held a visiting appointment at the department of Comparative Literature at Princeton (2007–2008). He is the author if The Matter of Empire: Metaphysics and Mining in Colonial Perú (2017), published by Pittsburgh University Press. His current interests are world-ecology, eco-Marxism, and speculative fiction. Bentancor has published articles in Hofstra Hispanic Review, Revista Iberoamericana, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies and Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies.

John Beverley is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature at the University of Pittsburgh and an advisory editor of boundary 2. His publications include Del Lazarillo al Sandinismo (1987); Literature and Politics in Central American Revolutions (1990, with Marc Zimmerman); The Postmodernism Debate in Latin America (1995, coedited with Michael Aronna and José Oviedo); and Subalternity and Representation: Arguments in Cultural Theory (1999).

The late Álvaro Félix Bolaños was Professor of Spanish and Latin American literature at the University of Florida. His publications include Barbarie y canibalismo en la retórica colonial: Los indios Pijaos de Fray Pedro Simón (1994) and Colonialism Past and Present: Reading and Writing about Colonial Latin America Today (2002, with Gustavo Verdesio).

Matthew Bush is Associate Professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies at Lehigh University. His research examines contemporary Latin American literature and culture, focusing primarily on Mexico, Peru, and Argentina. He is the author of Pragmatic Passions: Melodrama and Latin American Social Narrative (2014), and coeditor of Technology, Literature, and Digital Culture in Latin America: Mediatized Sensibilities in a Globalized Era (2016) and Un asombro renovado: Vanguardias contemporáneas en América Latina (2017). His writings have appeared in the journals Modern Language Notes, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, Revista Iberoamericana, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and A Contracorriente, among others.

Debra A. Castillo is Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies, and Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University, where she directs the Migration Studies minor. She is past president of the international Latin American Studies Association. She specializes in contemporary narrative and performance from the Spanish-speaking world (including the United States), gender studies, comparative border studies, and cultural theory. Her most recent books include South of the Future: Speculative Biotechnologies and Care Markets in South Asia and Latin America (with Anindita Banerjee) and The Scholar as Human (with Anna Sims Bartel).

Sara Castro-Klaren is Professor of Latin American Culture and Literature at Johns Hopkins University. She has been the recipient of several teaching awards. Most recently the Foreign Service Institute conferred upon her the title of “Distinguished Visiting Lecturer” (1993). She was appointed to the Fulbright Board of Directors by President Clinton in 1999. Her publications include El Mundo mágico de Jose Maria Arguedas (1973); Understanding Mario Vargas Llosa (1990); Escritura, sujeto y transgresion en la literatura latinoamericana (1989); and Latin American Women Writers (1991, coedited with Sylvia Molloy and Beatriz Sarlo).

Jorge Coronado is Professor of modern Latin American and Andean literatures and cultures at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Andes Imagined: Indigenismo, Society, and Modernity and Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency, 1900–1950 and the coeditor of Visiones de los Andes: Ensayos críticos sobre el concepto de paisaje y region. He is currently interested in how Latin America and its regions have cohered in the cultural imagination; the lettered practices that racialized activists produced by appropriating intellectuals’ tutelage to their own ends; and expanding the archive of the continent’s lettered and cultural production.

Rocío Cortés is a Professor of Colonial Latin American Literature and co-Chair of the Department of Global Languages and Cultures at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Her research interests focus on the Indigenous intellectual agency through official chronicles and mundane documents, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Mexico. She has published El Nahuatlatlo Alvarado y el Tlalmath Huauhquilpan (2011); Narradores Indígenas y mestizos de la época colonial (siglos XVI–XVII) Zonas andina y mesoamericana (2016), and several articles on the Indigenous writer don Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc.

Lúcia Helena Costigan teaches Luso-Brazilian and Spanish American literatures and cultures at the Ohio State University. She has published articles and books on colonial and postcolonial Brazil and Latin America. Many of her publications focus on comparative analyses between Brazil and other Latin American countries. Some of her recent publications include Diálogos da conversão: Missionários, índios, negros e judeus no contexto ibero-americano do período barroco (2005), and with Russell G. Hamilton, “Lusophone African and Afro-Brazilian Literatures,” Research in African Literatures (Spring 2007). Her forthcoming Literature and the Inquisition in the New World elaborates on migratory movements from Europe to the Americas during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and on the institutionalization of religious violence and censorship in the New World.

Fernando Degiovanni is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Los textos de la patria: Nacionalismo, políticas culturales y canon en Argentina (2007). His work has been published in Revista Iberoamericana, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, and Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, as well as in several edited volumes. He specializes in issues of cultural politics and canon formation in the Latin American fin de siècle. He is currently working on a book-length project that examines the emergence of Latin American literature as a fi eld of study.

Lisa DeLeonardis is Austen-Stokes Professor in art of the ancient Americas at Johns Hopkins University. She has authored several works on the art, architecture, and cartography of vice-regal Peru. Her current project, “A Transatlantic Response to Worlds that Shake,” was undertaken as the Charles K. Williams II fellow in Historic Preservation and Conservation at the American Academy in Rome (2018). The Rome Prize was inspired by an earlier study of the architecture of Santa Cruz de Lancha, published recently as “Paredes ingrávidas de efecto teatral” in El arte antes historia (eds. Curatola et al., 2020). Her book project explores Jesuit, Indigenous, and Afro-Peruvian influences on eighteenth-century architecture and material culture.

Peter Elmore is Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He is the author of Los muros invisibles. Lima y la modernidad en la novela del siglo XX (Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2015), La estación de los encuentros. Ensayos y artículos (Peisa, 2010), El perfil de la palabra. La obra de Julio Ramón Ribeyro (Fondo de Cultura Económica-Fondo Editorial de la PUCP, 2002) and La fábrica de la memoria. La crisis de la representación en la novela histórica latinoamericana (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1997). His latest book, Los juicios finales. Mentalidades andinas y cultura peruana moderna, is forthcoming. He has published four novels: Enigma de los cuerpos (Peisa, 1995), Las pruebas del fuego (Peisa, 1999), El fondo de las aguas (Peisa, 2006), and El náufrago de la santa (Peisa, 2013). He has coauthored several plays with Yuyachkani, Perú´s premier theatre group.

Sibylle Fischer (Ph.D. Columbia) is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature, and Africana Studies at New York University (NYU). Before joining NYU, she taught in the Literature Program and Department of Romance Studies at Duke University. Her Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution (2004) received the Frantz Fanon Award (Caribbean Philosophical Association), the Singer Kovacs Award (Modern Language Association), and the Bryce Wood Award (Latin American Studies Association), and in 2007 was the cowinner of the Sybil and Gordon Lewis Award (Caribbean Studies Association). She is the editor of a new translation of Cirilo Villaverde’s Cecilia Valdés (2005), and is currently working on a project about political subjectivity and violence.

Gustavo Furtado is Associate Professor of Latin American literature and cinema at Duke University and the author of Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil: Cinematic Archives of the Present (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Todd S. Garth is Associate Professor of Spanish at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. He is the author of The Self of the City: Macedonio Fernández, the Argentine Avant-Garde, and Modernity in Buenos Aires (2005), along with articles on Borges, Horacio Quiroga, and Machado de Assis. He is currently writing a study of seven interwar authors in the Río de la Plata region and their interrelated quests for pioneering, autochthonous ethical discourses. His ongoing research on Machado de Assis similarly examines that author’s efforts toward a transformation in Brazilian ethical thought.

Edouard Glissant has been a Visiting Professor of French Literature at the City University of New York (CUNY) since 1995. His publications include Le discours antillais (1981); The Ripening (1985); Mahagony: Roman (1987); Faulkner, Mississippi (1999); and Une Nouvelle région du monde (2006).

Leila Gómez in an Associate Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies and Director of the Latin American Studies Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research interests include Latin American and Indigenous literature, film, and culture in the 19th and 20th centuries, with emphasis on the Andes, Mexico, Paraguay, and Argentina. Among her books are Impossible Domesticity: Travels in Mexico (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), Teaching Gender through Latin American, Spanish and Latino Literature and Culture (coeditor, Sense Publishers, 2015), Darwinism in Argentina: Major Texts 1845–1909 (editor, Bucknell University Press, 2011), and Iluminados y tránsfugas: Relatos de viajeros y ficciones nacionales en Argentina, Paraguay y Perú (Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2009). For her book project Impossible Domesticity, Leila Gómez was the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship for Advanced Researchers 2014–2015. As director of the Latin American Studies Center, Gómez is the Principal Investigator in the US Department of Education Grant (IFLE) to develop and implement the Quechua Language Program at CU-Boulder, since 2020.

Stephen M. Hart (PhD, Cambridge, UK, 1985) is Professor of Latin American Film and Latin American literature at University College London. He is Director of the Centre of César Vallejo Studies at UCL. He has published a number of books, including A Companion to Spanish American Literature (1999) and A Companion to Latin American Film (2004). He holds an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Nacional Mayor of San Marcos in Lima and the Orden al Mérito from the Peruvian Government for his research on César Vallejo.

Hermann Herlinghaus is Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. His Violence Without Guilt: Ethical Narratives from the Globalized South will be published in 2008. Among his recent publications are Renarración y descentramiento: Mapas alternativos de la modernidad en América Latina (2004); Narraciones anacrónicas de la modernidad: melodrama e intermedialidad en América Latina (2002); and Modernidad heterogénea: Descentramientos hermenéuticos desde la comunicación en América Latina (2000). He has edited a variety of volumes on the history of concepts, and on contemporary literary and cultural debates.

Adriana Michèle Campos Johnson is an Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature at UC-Irvine. She is currently fi nishing a manuscript on the subalternization of Canudos. Her recent publications include “Everydayness and Subalternity,” South Atlantic Quarterly, 106:1 (2006); “Two Proposals for an Aesthetic Intervention in Politics: A Review of Nelly Richard, Masculine/Feminine and The Insubordination of Signs and Doris Sommer, Bilingual Aesthetics,” New Centennial Review, 5:3 (2005); and a translati on of Ticio Escobar, The Curse of Nemur: On the Art, Myth and Rituals of the Ishir Peoples of the Paraguayan Great Chaco (2007).

Hendrik Kraay is professor of history at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Bahia’s Independence: Popular Politics and Patriotic Festival in Salvador, Brazil, 1824–1900 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019), Days of National Festivity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1823–1889 (Stanford University Press, 2013), and Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia, 1790s–1840s (Stanford University Press, 2001). He is also the editor or coeditor of five books, including Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics: Bahia, 1790s–1990s (M.E. Sharpe, 1997), and has published numerous articles on Brazilian history.

Horacio Legras teaches Latin American literature and culture at the University of California-Irvine. He has published articles on the Mexican Revolution, Andean literature, and nineteenth-century Argentine culture. His forthcoming book, Literature and Subjection, explores the historical role of the literary form in the incorporation of marginal subjectivities to representation in Latin America.

Carlos M. López is a professor and researcher in the Department of Modern Languages at Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia. His specialization is in the study of the Popol Wuj and the production of texts under conditions of colonization. Among his publications is Los Popol Wuj y sus Epistemologías: Las diferencias, el conocimiento y los ciclos del infi nito (1999). He is the academic director of the online edition of the manuscript of the Popol Wuj in the collaborative project developed by Ohio State University Libraries and the Newberry Library (http://library.osu.edu/ sites/popolwuj) and also the academic director of the online site The Popol Wuj and Mayan Culture Archives (http://sppo.osu.edu/latinAmerica/archives/PopolWujLibrary/) hosted by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Center for Latin American Studies at Ohio State University.

Franklin W. Knight is Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. He has published extensively on Latin America and the Caribbean, including Slave Society in Cuba during the Nineteenth Century (1970) and The Caribbean: Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism (1990). He served as president of the Latin American Studies Association as well as of the Historical Society.

Elizabeth A. Marchant is Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at UCLA. She is the author of Critical Acts: Latin American Women and Cultural Criticism (University Press of Florida) and coeditor of Comparative Perspectives on the Black Atlantic, a special issue of Comparative Literature Studies (48.2). She is currently writing a book on enslavement and counter-memory in Brazil.

Kathryn Joy McKnight is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of New Mexico. Her book The Mystic of Tunja: The Writings of Madre Castillo, 1671–1742 (1997) was awarded the MLA’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Award. In 2009, she coedited with Leo Garofalo Afro-Latino Voices: Narratives from the Early Modern Ibero-Atlantic World, 1550–1812. Her health humanities text Para vivir con salud: leyendo la salud y la literatura (2021) co-authored with Jill S. Kuhnheim is available as an Open Educational Resource. Her ongoing research focuses on narratives of Afrodescendants in the early modern period and on teaching Hispanic literature to pre-health majors. She was awarded UNM’s Teacher of the Year Award in 2017.

Walter D. Mignolo is William H. Wannamaker Distinguished Professor of Romance Studies and Professor of Literature at Duke University. He has published extensively on semiotics and literary theory, and has in past years worked on different aspects of the modern/colonial world exploring concepts such as global coloniality, the geopolitics of knowledge, transmodernity, border thinking, and pluriversality. His publications on these topics include: The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, Colonization (1995, winner of the Katherine Singer Kovacs prize from the Modern Languages Association) and The Idea of Latin America (2005), Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking (2000). He is co-author with Catherine Walsh of On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis (2018) and The Politics of Decolonial Investigations (2021). He is editor and coeditor of Capitalismo y geopolítica del conocimiento: El eurocentrismo y la filosofía de la liberación en el debate intelectual contemporanáneo (2000) and The Americas: Loci of Enunciations and Imaginary Constructions (1994–95). His works have been translated into Mandarin, Korean, Russian, Estonian, Polish, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Swedish, Rumanian, Italian, and Turkish.

Elizabeth Monasterios is Professor of Latin American Literatures and Andean Studies in the Department on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh. Her teaching and research focus on​ Andean epistemologies, critical posthumanities, colonialism, and anticolonialism. Her most recent authored book, La vanguardia plebeya del Titikaka. Gamaliel Churata y otras insurgencies estéticas en los Andes (IFEA, 2015), received the 2016 Roggiano Prize for Latin American Literary Criticism, awarded by the International Institute of Ibero-American Literature. She is also coeditor of the Bolivian Studies Journal, founding member of JALLA (Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana), and has published widely on Andean and Indigenous literatures.

Juan Poblete is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Literatura chilena del siglo XIX: Entre públicos lectores y fi guras autoriales and the editor of Critical Latin American and Latino Studies (both 2003.) He is currently at work on a project on forms of mediation between culture and the market in the context of the neoliberal transformation of Chilean culture. He recently edited interdisciplinary Special Dossiers on the Globalization of Latin/o American Populations and Studies for the journals Iberoamericana (Germany), LASA Forum, and Latino Studies Journal. He is coediting two forthcoming volumes: Andres Bello (with Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephan) and Redrawing The Nation: Latin American Comics and The Graphic Construction of Cultural Identities (with Héctor Fernández-L’Hoeste).

José Rabasa teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley. His publications include Inventing America: Spanish Historiography and the Formation of Eurocentrism (1993) and Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier: The Historiography of New Mexico and Florida and The Legacy of Conquest (2000). He is in the process of collecting together into one volume his numerous articles on postcolonial theory and subaltern studies, and is completing a study of the intersection of pictography, orality, and alphabetical writing in Nahuatl colonial texts.

Juan G. Ramos is an associate professor of Spanish at the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA) where he teaches courses in both Spanish and English on Latin American and world literature. He is the author of Sensing Decolonial Aesthetics in Latin American Arts (University of Florida Press, 2018) and coeditor of Decolonial Approaches to Latin American Literatures and Cultures (Palgrave, 2016). He has also published on twentieth-century Latin American poetry, fiction, and film with a particular emphasis on the Andes. He has received a fellowship at the National Humanities Center (2021–2022) to continue working on his current book project on Andean modernismos.

Luis Fernando Restrepo is university professor in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where he directs the graduate program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies. His areas of research are colonial Latin America, Indigenous literatures, and literature and human rights. Among his publications and editions are Un nuevo reino imaginado, Antología Crítica de Juan de Castellanos, El Estado impostor, Narrativas en vilo entre la estética y la política and El malestar del posconflicto. His current book project examines early modern humanitarianism. He has received a Fulbright Scholar Award and the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana Literary Criticism Award.

Fernando J. Rosenberg is Professor of Romance Studies, Latin American and Latino and Caribbean Studies, and Film and Television Studies at Brandeis University. He is the author of The Avant-garde and Geopolitics in Latin America (Pittsburgh UP, 2006) and After Human Rights. Literature, Visual Arts and Film in Latin America (1990–2010) (Pittsburgh UP, 2016). He is currently working on contemporary literary and artistic production at the intersection of posthumanism and gender theories.

Javier Sanjinés C. is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He has also been a visiting professor at Duke University and at Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, in Quito, Ecuador. Sanjinés has published three books. His most recent is Mestizaje Upside-Down (2004). He has just fi nished a manuscript on the crisis of historical time in the Andean region.

Freya Schiwy is Professor of Media Cultural Studies and a cooperating faculty member in the Hispanic Studies Department at the University of California, Riverside. She is author of Indianizing Film. Decolonization, the Andes, and the Question of Technology (Rutgers University Press, 2009) and The Open Invitation. Activist Video, Mexico, and the Politics of Affect (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019). Together with Byrt Wammack Weber, she coedited Adjusting the Lens. Community and Collaborative Video in Mexico (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017) and she is one of the editors of the Journal for Latin American Cultural Studies.

Nicolas Shumway is the Tomás Rivera Regents Professor of Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. His book The Invention of Argentina (1991) was selected by The New York Times as a “Notable Book of the Year” and appeared in a revised version in Spanish in 2005. He has also published numerous articles on the literature and cultural history of Spanish America, Brazil, and Spain, and been a visiting professor at the Universidade de São Paulo as well as at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and the Universidad San Andrés in Buenos Aires.

Amanda M. Smith is Assistant Professor of Latin American literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and founding co-chair of the Amazonia section of the Latin American Studies Association. She publishes and teaches on 20th- and 21st-century Latin American cultural production in dialogue with the environmental humanities, spatial humanities, and Indigenous studies. Her book, Mapping the Amazon: Literary Geography after the Rubber Boom, examines how literary texts have both overlapped and clashed with institutional projects that divide Amazonia into cultural and economic spaces.

Abril Trigo is Distinguished Humanities Professor of Latin American Cultures at the Ohio State University. He is the author of Caudillo, estado, nación: Literatura, historia e ideología en el Uruguay (1990), ¿Cultura uruguaya o culturas linyeras? (Para una cartografía de la neomodernidad posuruguaya) (1997), Memorias migrantes: Testimonios y ensayos sobre la diáspora uruguaya (2003) and The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader, coauthored with Ana Del Sarto and Alicia Ríos (2004). Currently, he is working on Muerte y transfi guración de los estudios culturales latinoamericanos, a book-length essay on the effects of globalization on Latin American cultures, and Crítica de la economía politico-libidinal, a theoretical inquiry on the political economy of contemporary culture.

Gustavo Verdesio is Associate Professor of Spanish and Native American Studies at the University of Michigan. A revised version of his book La invención del Uruguay. La entrada del territorio y sus habitantes a la cultura occidental (1996) has been published as Forgotten Conquests. Rereading New World History from the Margins (2001). He coedited (with Alvaro F. Bolaños) Colonialism Past and Present. Reading and Writing about Colonial Latin America Today (2002), and edited issue 52 of the journal Dispositio/n (2005), dedicated to the Latin American Subaltern Studies group. His articles have appeared in journals such as Settler Colonial Studies, Revista Iberoamericana, and Arqueología Suramericana.

Lesley Wyllie is Associate Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Leicester, UK. She works on Latin American literature and culture from the late nineteenth century to the present, with a focus on the intersections between literature and the environment. She has published books on the novela de la selva and the literary geography of the Putumayo. In 2017 she was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to complete her most recent monograph, The Poetics of Plants in Spanish American Literature (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020). She is Associate Editor of the Bulletin of Spanish Studies.

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