Jesse Alemán is Professor of English at the University of New Mexico, where he teaches courses on the American gothic, southwestern literature and film, and theories of the novel. He has published more than a dozen articles on nineteenth-century American literature and Latino/a literary histories. He edited Loreta Janeta Velazquez’s 1876 autobiography The Woman in Battle (2003) and is co-editor of Empire and the Literature of Sensation (2007). Alemán has won numerous teaching awards at New Mexico and is working on a book titled Wars of Rebellion, which considers Hispanic writing about the U.S. Civil War in relation to contemporaneous civil wars in Cuba and Mexico.
José Aranda is Professor of Chicano/a and American Literature at Rice University and author of numerous articles on early U.S. criticism, nineteenth-century Mexican American literature, and the future of Chicano/a studies. Aranda is the author of When We Arrive: A New Literary History of Mexican America (2003). He is also co-editor of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, Vol. IV (2002). Aranda is working on a book titled The Places of Modernity in Mexican American Literature, 1848–1960.
Ralph Bauer is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he teaches courses on the literatures of the Americas, including Anglo, Spanish, and Native American literatures. His publications include The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity (2003); An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru (2005); and (co-edited with José Antonio Mazzotti) Creole Subjects in the Colonial Americas: Empires, Texts, Identities (2009). He is currently completing a monograph titled The Alchemy of Conquest: Prophecy, Discovery, and the Secrets of the New World.
Carrie Tirado Bramen is the author of The Uses of Variety: Modern Americanism and the Quest for National Distinctiveness (2000), which was co-winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Prize by the Board of Syndics at Harvard University Press for best first book. She has published on a range of topics, including essays on Leslie Fiedler, Henry James, and Gayl Jones. She is currently completing a book entitled American Niceness: A Cultural History.
Raúl Coronado is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His book A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture (2013) has received nine prizes, including the 2013 Modern Language Association Prize for best first book, the 2014 American Studies Association Prize for best book in American studies, the 2015 National Association for Chicana/o Studies best book prize, and the 2014 Texas State Historical Association Prize for historical research. His other publications include translations and contributions to the Heath Anthology of American Literature, short stories, and essays in queer and feminist studies, literary history, and Marxist cultural studies.
John Alba Cutler is Associate Professor of English and Latina/o Studies at Northwestern University. He is the author of Ends of Assimilation: The Formation of Chicano Literature (2015) as well as of many essays on Latina/o literature and culture.
Emily García is Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of Latina/o and Latin American Studies at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, where she teaches courses in American literature, Latina/o studies, and women’s and gender studies. She has published in Literature in the Early American Republic and the forthcoming Cambridge History of Latin@ Literature, among other venues. Her current book project “Novel Diplomacies: Literary and Cultural Interdependence Across the Americas” examines writing by Latin American and U.S. authors in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Kirsten Silva Gruesz is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she teaches the comparative literatures of the Americas, especially Latino/a writing in historical perspective. She is the author of Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing (2002) and more than two dozen essays. Her forthcoming book Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: Language, Race, and American Memory locates contemporary debates about language politics in the deep context of colonialism in the hemisphere.
Robert McKee Irwin is Chair of the Graduate Group in Cultural Studies and Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Davis. He is co–principal investigator of UC Davis’s Mellon Initiative in Comparative Border Studies (http://borderstudies.ucdavis.edu/) and directs the Sexualidades Campesinas digital storytelling project (http://sexualidadescampesinas.ucdavis.edu/en/about-the-project/).
Nicolás Kanellos is Brown Foundation Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston and Director of Arte Público Press and the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project. The founding publisher of the literary journal The Americas Review, Kanellos is the principal editor of Herencia: The Anthology of Hispanic Literature of the United States. His books include the award-winning History of Hispanic Theater in the United States, Origins to 1940 (1990) and Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El sueño del retorno (2011), which won the PEN Southwest Award for nonfiction. His distinctions include an American Book Award in the publisher/editor category and a Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature presented by the White House.
Carmen E. Lamas is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. She has published numerous articles on Cuban culture and nineteenth-century Latina/o literature. Lamas is working on a book titled Latina/o Continuum: Rethinking American and Latin American Studies.”
Rodrigo Lazo is Associate Professor of English and an affiliate of the Chicano/Latino Studies Department at the University of California, Irvine, where he is Director of the Humanities Core, an interdisciplinary year-long course for first-year students. He is author of Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States (2005) and more than a dozen articles on nineteenth-century U.S. literature, hemispheric studies, Herman Melville, and archive theory. He is working on a book titled Letters from Filadelfia.
Laura Lomas teaches Latina/o and U.S. literature in the English Department at Rutgers University–Newark, where she is affiliated with the Graduate Program in American Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies. Her book Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects and American Modernities (2008) won the MLA Prize for Latina/o and Chicana/o literature and an honorable mention from LASA’s Latina/o Section. Co-editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of Latin@ Literature, Lomas is working on a new book titled In-Between States: Lourdes Casal and the Poetics of the New York Borderlands. She co-directs the Latin@ Studies Working Group at Rutgers University–Newark.
Marissa K. López is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is author of Chicano Nations: The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature (NYU Press, 2011). López has published articles on Ana Castillo, Alurista, early Chicano historiography, and pedagogy, among other topics. Her research interests include literature and visual culture of the West, particularly California.
Juan Poblete is Professor of Latin/o American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is author of Literatura chilena del siglo XIX: entre públicos lectores y figuras autoriales (2003) and editor of Critical Latin American and Latino Studies (2003). Among books he has co-edited are Redrawing the Nation: National Identities in Latin/o American Comics (with Héctor Fernández-L’Hoeste, 2009); Desdén al infortunio: Sujeto,comunicación y público en la narrativa de Pedro Lemebel (with Fernando Blanco, Santiago, 2010); and Sports and Nationalism in Latin America (with Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Robert McKee Irwin, 2015). Poblete is at work on a book titled Angel Rama y la Critica Cultural Latinoamericana.
Gerald E. Poyo is Professor and Chair of the History Department at St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas. His research has focused on U.S. Latino history, especially Cuban exile communities in the United States. He is the author and editor of six books, including “With All, and for the Good of All”: The Emergence of Popular Nationalism in the Cuban Communities of the United States, 1848–1898 (1989); Cuban Catholics in the United States, 1960–1988: Exile and Integration (2007); and Exile and Revolution: Jose D. Poyo, Key West, and Cuban Independence (2014).
Alberto Varon is Assistant Professor of English and Latino Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he is also affiliated with the departments of American Studies and of Gender Studies. He teaches in American literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and in Latina/o literatures and cultures. He is currently at work on a book that examines the intersection of gender and citizenship in U.S. Latino cultural life before the Chicano movement.