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