Jill Anderson was born in Utah, raised in Texas, and is a resident in Mexico City since 2007. With a PhD in English from the University of Texas in Austin (2010), Anderson is co-author of the book Los Otros Dreamers (2014), and author of articles published in Latino Studies, Forced Out and Fenced In: Immigration Tales from the Field (Oxford 207), and other books and journals. Currently she serves as Co-director of Otros Dreams en Acción (ODA), a non-profit organization dedicated to advocacy and support with deported and returning immigrant youth in Mexico.
Gloria Elizabeth Chacón is an associate professor in the Literature Department at The University of California, San Diego. The author of Indigenous Cosmolectics: Kab’awil and the Making of Maya and Zapotec Literatures (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), Chacón is also co-editor of the forthcoming volume, Indigenous Interfaces: Spaces, Technology, and Social Networks in Mexico and Central America (University of Arizona Press, Spring 2019), as well as of a special issue of Diálogo on “The Five Cardinal Points in Contemporary Indigenous Literature” (Spring 2016). Her scholarly articles have appeared in anthologies and journals such as The Routledge History of Latin American Culture; Latino Studies; Cuadernos de Literatura; and Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. Chacón is working on her second book, tentatively titled Metamestizaje, Indigeneity, and Diasporas.
Thomas S Davis is Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University. He researches and teaches modern and contemporary Anglophone literature and culture, environmental humanities, and esthetic theory. He is the author of The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism and Everyday Life (Columbia University Press, 2016). His work has appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, Modernism/Modernity, Twentieth Century Literature, Textual Practice, English Language Notes, Literature Compass, and several edited collections. He is researching two books: one on midcentury esthetics and planetary change called Fossils of Tomorrow: Literature, Culture, and the Great Acceleration and another on contemporary art, literature, and culture called The Cultural Lives of Climate Change.
Nicholas De Genova is Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Houston. He previously held teaching appointments at King’s College London, Goldsmiths/ University of London, Columbia, and Stanford, as well as visiting professorships or research positions at the Universities of Warwick, Bern, Amsterdam, and Chicago. He is the author of Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago (2005), co-author of Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship (2003), editor of Racial Transformations: Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States (2006), co-editor of The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement (2010), and editor of The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering (2017).
María DeGuzmán is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and founding Director of Latina/o Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Spain’s Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire (University of Minnesota Press, 2005) and Buenas Noches, American Culture: Latina/o Aesthetics of Night (Indiana University Press, 2012). She has a third book, on Chicano writer John Rechy, in production with the University of South Carolina Press. She has published many essays and articles on Latina/o cultural production including “Four Contemporary Latina/o Writers Ghost the U.S. South” in The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South (2016). She is also a conceptual photographer as well as a music composer and sound designer (see https://soundcloud.com/mariadeguzman).
Rene Galvan is an interdisciplinary artist based in Boston. Their visual research and investigations focus on administration and on the role administrative systems play in the generation of a Latinx subjectivity, queerness, masculinity, and knowledge. They received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and are currently postdoctoral associate at Duke University’s Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South.
Macarena Gómez-Barris is Chairperson of the Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies and Director of the Global South Center at Pratt Institute, a space for critical inquiry that centers experimental modes of thinking, being and doing. Macarena is the author of three books including The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives that theorizes social life, art, and decolonial praxis through five extractive scenes of ruinous capitalism upon Indigenous territories (Duke University Press, 2017). Macarena’s recent book Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Americas (UC Press 2018) asks us to imagine politics beyond the nation state. She is also the author of Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile (2009), and co-editor with Herman Gray of Towards a Sociology of a Trace (2010). Macarena is working on a new book project called At the Sea’s Edge on the aesthetics of coloniality.
Hilda Lloréns, a cultural anthropologist, is the author of Imaging the Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race, and Gender during the American Century (2014). She teaches anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Rhode Island.
Claudia Milian is Associate Professor of Romance Studies and Director of the Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South at Duke University. She is the author of Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies (University of Georgia Press, 2013) and the editor of a special issue of Cultural Dynamics, “Theorizing LatinX” (2017). Milian is also coeditor of two special issues: “Interoceanic Diasporas and the Panama Canal’s Centennial” in The Global South (2012) and “U.S. Central Americans: Representations, Agency, and Communities” in Latino Studies (2013). Her recent writings have appeared in English Language Notes (ELN); The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature; Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imaginary; The Cambridge Companion to Latina/o American Literature; Keywords for Southern Studies; Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies; and The Miami Rail.
Mark Overmyer-Velázquez is the 11th Campus Director of the University of Connecticut-Hartford where he also is Professor of History and Latinx and Latin American Studies. The founding Director of UConn’s El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean & Latin American Studies, he is the author of numerous books and articles that examine the histories of people moving in and beyond Latin American and the Caribbean.
Thea N Riofrancos is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Providence College. Her research focuses on resource extraction, radical democracy, social movements, and the left in Latin America. These themes are explored in her forthcoming book, Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador (forthcoming with Duke University Press).
Fredo Rivera is a curator, drag performer, and an assistant professor of Art History at Grinnell College. Their research and teaching focus on modern and contemporary architecture, the global city, and Caribbean art and visual culture. Their doctoral research explored the role of revolution and nationalism in socialist Cuba, and they have also worked on exhibitions regarding Haitian art and photography. Rivera is also a proud member of the House of Shame in Miami, and occasionally performs as the bearded drag persona Lolita Cabrón.
Maritza Stanchich is a professor of English at University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras, and has served in its Academic Senate and professors association APPU. She has published scholarship on Faulkner, literature of the Puerto Rican diaspora, and the crisis at UPR, and columns, mainly for The Huffington Post, which helped bring initial international attention to Puerto Rico’s current crisis.
