Sara Buitrago Montero holds a BA in Comparative Literature from CUNY, Hunter College and an MA in Spanish Language and Literature from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Her current research interests include early modern Spanish theater, Italian Renaissance, textual scholarship, digital humanities, feminism, and art history.

Sebas Cadavid Rojas holds a B.A. in Literary Studies and an M.A. from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. Their undergraduate thesis explored the novelistic project of La Comédie Humaine by Balzac, while their master's research delved into the interplay of fiction and reality in Ricardo Piglia's Los diarios de Emilio Renzi. Sebas specializes in the transformations of the novel in 20th-century Latin America, with a particular focus on "monstrous" forms such as diaries and intimate letters.

Abel Castaño holds a Bachelor's degree in Translation and Interpreting from University of Córdoba as well as a postgraduate in American Studies from Smith College and a postgraduate in Teaching Modern Foreign Languages from University of Chichester, UK. He is interested in literature of the Venezuelan diaspora. 

Florencia Coelho is a Ph.D. student from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Florencia received her B.A. and teaching degree in Literature (Letras) from the University of Buenos Aires in 2020. For her M.A. dissertation in Argentine Literature at the National University of Rosario, she has translated the first version of a travel memoir from English to Spanish, which includes an introduction and research notes. She is interested in nineteenth century cultural studies, nation building narratives and geographical imaginations. She also enjoys arts and crafts.

Ben Easton received his BA in Spanish and English Literature from the University of Notre Dame in 2018 and an MA in Iberian and Latin American Literatures in 2019. His research deals primarily with the institutional construction of imperial subjects as represented in Early Modern Iberian Literature, with a special interest in the picaresque novel.

Giovanna Gobbi Alves Araújo holds a B.A. and a B.Ed. in Languages and Literatures from the Universidade de São Paulo, where she also got her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Brazilian Literature. She was a Fulbright scholar at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2018-2019, and a scholar-in-residence at the Biblioteca Brasiliana Guita and José Mindlin between 2019 and 2022. Her current research interests include 19th- and 20th-century Hispanic American literature and iconography, (counter)hegemonic aesthetic paradigms, the representation of nature and the observation of environmental change, and the impact of extractive capitalism and imperialism in Latin America.

Henrry Ibáñez took graduate courses at Stony Brook University and holds a B.A. in Hispanic Literature from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. His research explores sickness and violence in the colonial Andes and Spanish Golden Age, transatlantic relations in the 16th and 17th centuries, and death and the body in 20th century Latin American poetry and cinema.

Jamila Medina Ríos received both her BA in Hispanic Philology and MA in Applied Linguistics from the University of Havana. Her graduate thesis, Diseminaciones de Calvert Casey (Letras Cubanas, 2011), addresses the work of this American-Cuban in a genetic context, as a mythical rewriting between eros and thanatos. In her master's thesis, she proposes the existence of a Cuban revolutionary sociolect, its hybridization with the chronotope of the French Revolution, and its presentation in the poetry and theater of Nara Mansur. She currently explores the reenactment of the mambí corpus in Cuban art and literature today.

Constanza Molina is a PhD student from Córdoba, Argentina. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Modern Literature (Letras Modernas) and a Teaching Degree from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC). Her current research interests focus on various aspects of contemporary Latin American literature, particularly how certain narratives deconstruct the promises of progress and economic growth found in neoliberal discourses. She is also interested in ecocriticism, disability studies, and gender studies. Prior to pursuing her PhD, she worked as a high school teacher and has a strong interest in education at both the secondary and university levels.

Yaz Murray received her M.A. in Spanish and History from the University of Edinburgh in 2018 and completed her M.Phil. in Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge in 2019. She is currently interested in disability studies, ecocriticism, and conceptualizations of the non-human in contemporary Latin American literature and cultural production. 

David Parsard received both his BA and MA in Spanish language and literature from CUNY Hunter College. His master’s thesis discussed expressions of identity and neoplatonic notions of love in Feliciano de Silva’s romance of chivalry Amadís de Grecia. His current interests include 16 th century Spanish chivalric romances, early modern conceptions of identity, self-fashioning, and visions of the Conquest of the Americas.

Irene Rihuete Varea completed her BA in Film and Media Studies in Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, with a minor in Political Science. She then received an MA in Film Studies from King's College London. Her interests include Latin American and Spanish cinemas, postcolonial studies, public memory and affect.

Roberto Rodríguez Reyes received his BA from the University of Havana in 2010, and an MA in Hispanic American Literature from El Colegio de San Luis (Mexico). His undergraduate thesis discussed the idea of the “total novel”, theorized and practiced by Latin American Boom authors, within the work of Roberto Bolaño. His master’s thesis was on the conception of evil in the novels of the Mexican writer José Revueltas. His most recent book is the critical texts compilation of Roberto Bolaño (Casa de las Américas, 2019). He is co-founder and editor of the project Rialta. He manages and edits the Rialta Archive.

Carmen Urbita Ibarreta holds a BA in Comparative Literature from King's College London and completed her MSt in Modern Languages (Spanish & French) at Oxford University. Among her research interests are early modern peninsular and colonial culture, early modern women's writing, reading and writing practices and the body.

Luz Velasco Oropeza holds a B.A. from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Latin American Literature. She is interested in 20th and 21st century Latin American poetry; particularly in exile poetry written by Latin American female writers living in the United States. She is also interested in performance art, intermediality, literary theory, the concept of body, and the questioning of artistic and political borders.

María Victoria Taborelli holds a BA in Letras and a BA in Literary Teaching from Universidad de Buenos Aires. Her current interests include intertextualities present in Post-dictatorship Latin American narratives and performing arts, women's writing, memory of collective traumas, literary theory and literary education.

Molly Wagschal received her BA in Comparative Literature & Society from Columbia University in 2022, and has since worked as an in-house translator and copywriter in Barcelona. Her academic interests include the poetry of exiled Republicans (specifically women) during and after the Spanish Civil War, as well as Catalan studies, literary translation, and the relationships between exile, translation, and gender.