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.

Nicolás is a lawyer and historian with degrees from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá and an MPhil in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge. He has studied how foundational and Afro-diasporic historical fiction shapes and challenges Colombia's national identity. Currently, he is interested in how Latin American fiction, more broadly, engages with the historical archive to shape and challenge political imagination across the region. Before joining Brown, Nicolás worked as a public interest litigator in Colombia.

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 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. 

Christian David has an undergraduate degree in mathematics and philosophy, followed by an M.A. in Art History from the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá). His main interest lies in the ways death and suffering of human and non-human beings are portrayed across transatlantic Hispanic literature, art, and culture, from the early modern period to the early 20th century. He explores interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to this field, including affect theory, religious studies, the history of science, and animal studies. Having conducted fieldwork with regional government cultural agencies and small museums across southwestern Colombia, Christian David aims to further his education and work in the digital humanities within the cultural sector.  

Irene Rihuete-Varea is a PhD candidate from Spain. Her research interests include Latin American and Spanish cinemas, documentary theory and ecocriticism. Her work has been published by the journal Comparative Cinema and by the Institute of Latin American Arts (ISLAA). She is a film programmer, and has participated in curatorial projects at The Museum of Modern Art. She holds a Master of Arts in Film Studies from King’s College London.

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.

Violet Taylor received her BA from UC Berkeley in Hispanic Languages and Literatures and English. She is interested in regionality and regional literatures of the Spanish-speaking world, the posthumanities, the anthropocene, and the contemporary Iberian Peninsula. Her undergraduate thesis examines how Andrea Abreu's 2020 novel Panza de burro, read through the environmental humanities and glottopolitics, suggests alternative ways to define the contemporary Canary Islands. 

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 holds a BA in Comparative Literature & Society from Columbia University and has worked as a technical and literary translator. She is interested in the intersections between gender, translation, and authorship in 20th-century Iberian literatures. Her current research focuses on Spanish women’s writings from and about the United States.