Sebastián Antezana Quiroga is International Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Hispanic Studies and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, with an affiliation with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. He received a Ph.D. in romance studies from Cornell University in 2019 and worked as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at Dickinson College and the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Syracuse University. His book project, “Migrant Afterlives: Spectral Narratives of Greater Mexico and Greater Bolivia,” focuses on migrant communities in contemporary literature and film from the Mexican and Bolivian cultural spectrums, on the ways in which these communities are strategically associated with specters and other afterlife figures, and on how this association reflects the disjointing, spectral logic of different variants of the national model (like the transnational, the multinational, and the postnational) that operate in unison. He has published several academic articles and book chapters and is the author of three books of fiction. In Fall 2025 he will join Xavier University as Assistant Professor of Spanish.

Nicolás Campisi studies the relationship between literature and catastrophe in contemporary Latin America. His first book, The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times, explores how writers represent Latin America's neoliberal apocalypse brought about by ecological disaster, socioeconomic crisis, the lingering traumas of dictatorship, and slavery's afterlives. Through a hemispheric analysis of novels in Spanish and Portuguese, the book argues that Latin American writers travel back in time to understand the incompleteness of the present and the waning of the future during our neoliberal end times.

Liliana Colanzi holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Cornell University. 

Her research focuses on literatures of irreality in modern and contemporary Latin American fiction (science fiction, horror, the fantastic) and its relationship to issues of class, gender, and race, as well as to debates on animal studies and posthumanism. 

She has edited La desobediencia, antología de ensayo feminista (2019) and is the co-editor of the volumes Regiones inquietantes: literatura de horror en Latinoamérica (Hispanic Issues Online, Fall 2024, with Debra Castillo) and Latin American Speculative Fiction (Paradoxa, 2018, with Debra A. Castillo). 

She is the publisher of the independent literary press Dum Dum editora in Bolivia. 

As a fiction writer, she has published the short story books Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro (You Glow in the Dark, New Directions, 2024), Nuestro mundo muerto (Our Dead World, Dalkey Archive Press, 2017), and Vacaciones permanentes (2010). 

Erica Durante is an Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Brown University. She earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III. Before Brown, she held an Associate Professor position in Comparative Literature at the University of Louvain from 2010 to 2017. 

Her research focuses on 20^th and 21st-century Latin American literature and spans three main agendas. The first explores writers’ creative processes, analyzing manuscripts, literary archives, and authors’ libraries. The second delves into contemporary narratives of repression, human rights violations, and systemic inequality, examining issues of gender, class, and social injustice. The third investigates the cultural implications of globalization in contemporary literature. She has published extensively in Latin American Studies, Comparative Literature, and Global Studies. She has a wide-ranging teaching and advising experience in these areas, reflecting partly her command of Spanish, English, French, and Italian.

Her dedication to scholarship extends beyond academia, as demonstrated by her involvement in cataloging Borges’ personal library at the Fundación Internacional Jorge Luis Borges in Buenos Aires, sponsored by the Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard between 2007 and 2009. She is actively engaged in public humanities and community-based projects, including her role in the inception and direction of the inaugural edition of the Providence Iberoamerican Literature Festival (FLIP) in 2024.

She is the author of the books Air Travel Fiction and Film: Cloud People (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Questions de poétique et d’écriture: Dante au miroir de Valéry et de Borges (Paris: Champion, 2008), and Mallarmé et moi (Pisa: ETS, 1999). She has edited Los Meridianos de la Globalización (Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2015) and Le Double: littérature, arts, cinéma. Nouvelles approaches (with A. Dehoux) (Paris: Champion, 2018). Her current book project is tentatively entitled: El horror femenino y feminista: una perspectiva literaria latinoamericana contemporánea.

Andrés Emil González is a graduate student in Comparative Literature at Brown University. His doctoral research centers on formal experiments in communicating meaning in contemporary hemispheric American horror fiction, with a particular focus on horror’s conceptions of violence. 

His academic work can be found in Studies in the Fantastic and forthcoming in Genre, as well as in the forthcoming edited volume American Folk Horrors (University of Wales Press). Further writings on horror can be found on his Substack. 

Magíster de Literatura Hispanoamericana por la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Master of Arts en Hispanic Literatures por Michigan State University, y Bachiller de Literatura Latinoamericana por la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Es miembro de la Red Interdisciplinaria de Estudios Latinoamericanos Siglo XIX y estudiante de doctorado de Romance Languages and Literatures en Harvard University. Ha publicado la antología de relatos peruanos de entresiglos titulada Contigüidad de los cadáveres (2023) y, actualmente, se encuentra preparando una edición crítica de Cuentos malévolos de Clemente Palma para el proyecto editorial Perséfone del Colegio de México.

Directora y guionista mexicana, egresada del Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica. En 2017, recibió la beca Chevening para estudiar en el Reino Unido, donde completó una maestría en Dirección de Cine en Goldsmiths, University of London. En 2023, fue seleccionada por el Sundance Institute para recibir el Momentum Fellowship. 

Su ópera prima, Huesera, se estrenó en el Festival de Cine de Tribeca 2022, donde obtuvo el premio a la Mejor Nueva Dirección Narrativa y el prestigioso premio Nora Ephron. Huesera acumuló más de 40 galardones en festivales internacionales, incluyendo el Citizen Kane a Dirección Revelación en el Festival de Sitges y el premio a Mejor Película de la sección Crazies en el Torino Film Festival. La película recibió 17 nominaciones a los premios Ariel de la Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas, ganando en las categorías de Mejor Ópera Prima, Guion Original, Maquillaje y Efectos Especiales. 

En 2023, Michelle fue nominada en la categoría de Dirección Revelación en los Gotham Awards, celebrados en la ciudad de Nueva York. Actualmente, trabaja en la adaptación de la novela Ornamento del escritor colombiano Juan Cárdenas junto a su coguionista Alejandra Moffat y prepara el rodaje del remake de la icónica cinta La mano que mece la cuna, de la mano de 20th Century Studios.

Among other works, he has authored the following books: La crónica modernista hispanoamericana (Madrid: Porrúa Turanzas, 1983); La novela modernista hispanoamericana (Madrid: Gredos, 1987); Journalism and the Development of Spanish American Narrative (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), Killer Books: Violence, Writing, and Ethics in Modern Spanish American Narrative (Austin: U of Texas Press, 2002; Spanish translation: Abusos y admoniciones: ética y escritura en la narrativa hispanoamericana moderna, México: Siglo XXI Editores, 2002), A Companion to Spanish American Modernismo (London: Tamesis, 2007), Love and Politics in the Contemporary Spanish American Novel (Austin: U of Texas Press, 2010), and a critical edition of Redentores by Manuel Zeno Gandía (Río Piedras: University of Puerto Rico Press, 2010).  His book In Search of the Sacred Book: Religion and the Contemporary Latin American Novel was published in the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2018. 

The recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship, he is the founder and general editor of the Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory Series of Bucknell University Press and was the general editor of the Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature Series of Cambridge University Press from 1995 to 1997. 

He currently serves on the editorial and advisory boards of Decimonónica, Latin American Literary Review, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (Washington U. in St. Louis), Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Symposium, and Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica.

Rune Graulund (BA, MA, University of Copenhagen, PhD, Goldsmiths College, University of London) is Associate Professor in American Literature and Culture at the Institute of Literature, Media and Cultural Studies, and Director of the research cluster Anthropocene Aesthetics. 

His research centers on American popular culture and literature (especially science fiction, clifi, gothic, and post-apocalyptic fiction) as well as political fiction and non-fiction relating to questions of migration, empire, ecology and the Anthropocene.

Teresa López-Pellisa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philology, Communication, and Documentation and the Director of the Future Studies Laboratory at the University of Alcalá (Madrid). She holds a PhD in Humanities from Carlos III University of Madrid, a degree in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and a degree in Humanities from Carlos III University.

She has conducted research stays at the Université de Genève (Switzerland), the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and The Graduate Center (New York). She is a member of the Institute of Culture and Technology at Carlos III University and serves on the Editorial Board of Pasavento. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and is Editor-in-Chief of Brumal. Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico.

Her research focuses on science fiction literature, gender studies, cyberculture, and future studies. Among her publications are: Historia de la ciencia ficción latinoamericana, vols. 1 & 2 (with Silvia K. G. Ares, Iberoamericana, 2020 and 2021), Historia de la ciencia ficción en la cultura española (Iberoamericana, 2018), and Patologías de la realidad virtual. Cibercultura y Ciencia Ficción (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2015).

She has also co-edited several volumes, including: Ciberfeminismo: De Venus Matrix a Laboria Cubonik (with Remedios Zafra, Holobionte, 2019), Visiones de lo fantástico en la cultura española (1970–2012) (with David Roas, E.D.A. Libros, 2014), and Ensayos sobre ciencia ficción y literatura fantástica (with Fernando Ángel Moreno, Universidad Carlos III, 2009).

She is the editor of the anthologies: Las otras. Antología de mujeres artificiales (Eolas, 2018), Poshumanas. Antología de escritoras españolas de ciencia ficción and Distópicas. Antología de escritoras españolas de ciencia ficción (both with Lola Robles, Eolas, 2019), Insólitas. Narradoras de lo fantástico en Latinoamérica y España (with Ricard Ruiz, Páginas de Espuma, 2019), and Fantastic Short Stories by Women Authors from Spain and Latin America (with Patricia García, University of Wales Press, 2019). She has also published numerous articles in specialized journals.

He has held visiting professorships at Columbia University, New York University, and Tel Aviv University, and received a Macgeorge Fellowship from the University of Melbourne and a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 

He has been interviewed on questions of cinema and culture for The New York Times, Adam Simon’s documentary The American Nightmare, and elsewhere.  Through the support of a Global Academic Partnership Grant from Pitt’s Global Studies Center, Adam is the Director of the Global Horror Studies Archival and Research Network. 

He also serves as the Faculty Fellow for the David C. Frederick Honors College’s “Horror Genre as a Social Force” scholar community at Pitt.

Sofía Masdeu is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. 

In her research, she traces a non-European genealogy of the gothic and fantastic genres in the Río de la Plata, connecting it with the singular history of political violence that has characterized the Southern Cone since the Spanish conquest. 

Sofía’s areas of interest include modern and contemporary Latin American literature; the nineteenth and twentieth-century mass migrations; settler colonialism studies, indigenous studies, and colonial genocide studies; sixteenth-century conquest chronicles; and oceanic studies. 

Sofía’s peer-reviewed articles have been published in the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies and the Journal of Lusophone Studies. 

B.A. in Political Science, University of Alabama-Huntsville (1991); M.A. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures, UC-Berkeley (1993); Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures, UC-Berkeley (1997). Winner of the Bolivian National Book Award (2003), and the Juan Rulfo Short Story Award (1997). 

He has published Alcides Arguedas y la narrativa de la nación enferma (2003), and is the coeditor, with Gustavo Faverón, of the volume of critical essays Bolaño salvaje (2008), and, with Alberto Fuguet, of the anthology of short stories Se habla español: Voces latinas en U.S.A. (2000). 

He teaches Modern and Contemporary Spanish-American Literature, Andean Literature, Narrative and Mass Media, Speculative Fiction, and Creative Writing. 

He is the author of fourteen novels (among them Área protegida, La mirada de las plantas, Los días de la peste and Norte), and six books of short stories (among them La vía del futuro, Las visiones, and Billie Ruth). His work has been translated to twelve languages.

David Roas es escritor y catedrático de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, donde dirige el Grupo de Estudios sobre lo Fantástico (GEF) y Brumal. Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico. 

Desde el curso 2023-2024 es catedrático en Comisión de Servicios en la Universidad de Alcalá. Especialista en lo fantástico, entre sus últimos trabajos cabe destacar la monografía Cronologías alteradas. Lo fantástico y la transgresión del tiempo (2022) y la coordinación del volumen Historia de lo fantástico en las narrativas latinoamericanas I (1830-1940) (2023). 

Entre sus obras de ficción pueden mencionarse los libros de cuentos Distorsiones (2010; VIII Premio Setenil al mejor libro español de cuentos del año), Bienvenidos a Incaland® (2014), Invasión (2018) y Niños (2022), así como la novela Celuloide sangriento (1996) y La estrategia del koala (2013).

Patricia Saldarriaga completed her M.A. at the Ludwig Maximilian Universität in Munich, Germany, and her PhD. in Spanish and Literary Theory at the University of Washington in Seattle. 

She has been at Middlebury College since 1999, where she teaches courses in Golden Age literature and art, contemporary poetry, literary and cultural theory, visual culture, and Spanish language. She has taught a number of graduate courses in the Middlebury Spanish Language Schools (Middlebury VT and Guadalajara, Mexico) on different topics of the Baroque. 

Her book (in co-authorship with Emy Manini) Infected Empires: Decolonizing Zombies was published by Rutgers University Press in April, 2022. She is currently working on two additional book projects: Female Monsters in Global Cinema, as well as Spheres of God and Knowledge: Geometrization of Power in Luso-Hispanic Visual Culture of the 16th-18th centuries. Former member of the Hispanic Baroque Project, current member of UC Mexicanistas.

Jorge Antonio Sánchez Rivera is originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico. 

He graduated from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, with a BA in Spanish Secondary Education and a minor in Hispanic Studies, focussing on Hispanic American and Puerto Rican Literature. He also earned an MA in Hispanic Language & Literature at the University of Puerto Rico. 

Jorge’s research interests include contemporary Latin American literature, the fantastic and neo-fantastic genres, violence in contemporary Latin American authors, and Argentinian women contemporary narratives.