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
