Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra is an associate professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research centers on Latin American and African literatures, with a focus on large-scale comparative frameworks such as the Global South. She is the author of The Dictator Novel: Writers and Politics in the Global South (Northwestern University Press, 2019) as well as numerous articles, chapters, and essays. She was a founding member of the forum on the Global South at the Modern Language Association (MLA) (2015-2020) and is co-director of Global South Studies. More information on her work can be found at www.magaliarmillastiseyra.com.

Sarah M. Quesada is a comparatist and Associate Professor of Romance Studies, and of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature (Cambridge UP, December 2022), which received an Honorable Mention for First Book in 2023 from the ModernLanguages Association (MLA). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in PMLA, Comparative Literature, Small Axe, American Quarterly, African Studies Review, among other places. Her research focuses on the South-South engagement of Latinx, Latin American and African studies, mostly regarding literary histories of slavery, internationalism and decolonization. Quesada’s second book project investigates different Cold War attachments among Chicana, Mexican, and African writers, and unburies the influences of lesser-known feminists in the Global South. Her work has been supported by the National Humanities Center, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, among other places, and she is currently the Book Review Editor for the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry (CUP) and serves on the advisory board of the journal Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism (Duke UP). She has served on Executive Committees for the MLA and the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).