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J. J. ARMAS MARCELO

is a writer and journalist. He is doctor honoris causa of the Universidad Latina de Panamá, member of the Real Academia Hispanoamericana de las Ciencias, Artes y Letras, and director of the Chair Vargas Llosa. His last novel is La noche que Bolívar traicionó a Miranda (2011).

CÉSAR DOMÍNGUEZ

is associate professor of comparative literature at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, where he holds the Jean Monnet Chair "The Culture of European Integration". His research fields are theory of comparative literature, comparative literary history, medieval studies, European literature and world literature. His last books are World Literature. A Reader (co-edited with Theo D'haen & Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Routledge, 2013) and Literatura europea comparada (Arco/Libros, 2013). Website

CRISTINA GARRIGÓS

is associate Professor of English and American Literature at the University of León. Her main research interests are comparative literature, postmodernism, theory and gender studies. She coordinated the research project LESEU (Literatura en ESpañol en los Estados Unidos). She is currently working on a book titled Postmodernism Revisited: A Report on the Literature of Replenishment (Universitat de València, 2015) which readdresses the postmodernist debate from a transhistorical and transnational perspective.

ASUNCIÓN LÓPEZ-VARELA

is associate professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Department of English II) and founder of the research program "Studies on Intermediality and Intercultural Mediation". Her research interests are comparative literature, world literature, cultural studies, and intermedial semiotics. Her last book is Cityscapes. World Cities and Their Cultural Industries (Common Ground, 2013) . Website

GORIÇA MAJSTOROVIC

is associate professor of Spanish at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. Her research concerns the intersection of comparative literary history and world literature, with particular emphasis on translation theory, visual arts, urban space and Transatlantic studies. She is the author of Cosmopolitanism and Argentine Literature: Reading the Tower of Babel Trope (forthcoming). Website

MARCO PAONE

Iis a graduate candidate at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and researcher at the Centro "Ramón Piñeiro" para a investigación en Humanidades. He is completing his PhD dissertation on translation by Argentinean and Italian poets.

MANUEL AZUAJE-ALAMO

is a graduate candidate at Harvard University (Department of Comparative Literature). Visit my website

DAVID DAMROSCH

is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. A past president of the ACLA, he has written widely on comparative literature and world literature from antiquity to the present. His last book is The Routledge Companion to World Literature (co-edited with Theo D'haen & Djelal Kadir, Routledge, 2012). He is the director of the Institute of World Literature. Website

CAROLINA FERNÁNDEZ CASTRILLO

is associate professor of media studies and digital culture at Universidad a Distancia de Madrid. Her research interests include transmedia storytelling, visual studies and media archeology. Website

SUSANA JUSTO

is a graduate candidate and research assistant of the Jean Monnet Chair "The Culture of European Integration" at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. She is completing her PhD dissertation on orature from a methodological and analytical point of view in relation to northern Africa.

JOSÉ MANUEL LOSADA

is associate professor of French at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His research interests include 17th-20th centuries French literature, myth criticism, literary theory, and comparative literature. His last book is Mito e interdisciplinariedad (co-edited with Antonella Lipscomb, Levante, 2013). Website

FÉLIX MARTÍN

is professor of English and American literature at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His research fields include the historical novel, Burke, Shakespeare, Poe, and cultural studies. Website

BEGOÑA REGUEIRO

(PhD Spanish Literature) is lecturer at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She is a member of the research group LEETHI and her research interests are 19th- and 20th-century Spanish literature, Romanticism and digital literatures. Her last book is La poética del Segundo Romanticismo español (Fundación Universitaria Española, 2010). Website

MARGARITA GARCÍA CANDEIRA

is assistant professor at Universidad de Huelva (Department of Spanish Literature). Her research fields are poetics of modernity, Spanish modern poetry and Rosalía de Castro's narrative work. Her last book is Estrategia y melancolía. La herencia de la vanguardia en la obra de Luis García Montero (Peter Lang, 2012).

MIRIAM LLAMAS

is associate professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where she teaches German literatura and comparative literature. She is a member of the research group LEETHI and her research interests include literary theory, interculturality, memory studies, and digital humanities. Her last book is Lecturas del contacto: manifestaciones estéticas de la interculturalidad y la transculturalidad (Arco/Libros, 2012). Website

JOSÉ MANUEL LUCÍA MEGÍAS

is professor of Romance philology at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and coordinator of the Centro de Estudios Cervantinos. He has written widely on the genre of chivalric books, Don Quijote, textual criticism, and digital humanities. His last book is Elogio del texto digital (Fórcola, 2012).

ALFREDO MORO

is assistant professor at ESNE-Universidad Camilo José Cela, where he teaches English. His research fields include the reception of Cervantes in the UK and Germany during the 18th and the 19th centuries and English-German literary relationships during the 19th century.

AMELIA SANZ

is associate professor of French at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She is the coordinator of the research group LEETHI and her research interests are comparative literature, intertextuality, interculturality, and digital humanities. Website

Evelina Saponjic-Jovanovic

(PhD in Latin American literature, Universidad Complutense de Madrid) is a PhD candidate in English & Comparative Literature at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her research fields include Mario Vargas Llosa, Modernism and avant-garde literature in Latin America, and micro fiction. Website

MARIANO SISKIND

is John L. Loeb associate professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. His research interests include 19th- and 20th-century Latin American literature, travel writing, and histories and theories of globalization and cosmopolitanism. His last book is Cosmopoitan Desires: Global Modernity and World Literature in Latin America (book manuscript under contract with Northwestern UP). Website