Based in Brown’s Department of Hispanic Studies, the Transatlantic Project also drew faculty and graduate students from Comparative Literature, English, Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, French as well as the social sciences. It also included interested faculty from Dartmouth College, Harvard, Boston U., Yale, NYU and colleagues from other American, European and Latin American universities and research centers.

The Project started in 1995 with a series of colloquia with colleagues from Cambridge University. It was supported by the Brown President's Office, the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and also by Mexican, Chilean and Spanish universities.

Six bi-annual international conferences have taken place at Brown and, with our participation, other conferences have been organized by universities in Havana, Puerto Rico, Madrid and Lima.