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Idelber Avelar is a Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University. His latest books are Transculturación en suspenso: Los orígenes de los cánones narrativos colombianos (2016), Crônicas do estado de exceção (2014), and Figuras da violência: Ensaios sobre narrativa, ética e música popular (2011). His book The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning (1999) won the MLA Kovacs Award and appeared in Spanish (2000) and Portuguese (2003). Among his awards are an ACLS fellowship (2010–11) and first place in Itamaraty's international essay contest on Machado de Assis (2005).
Fabio Cesar Alves é professor de literatura brasileira do Departamento de Letras Clássicas e Vernáculas da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo, onde desenvolve pesquisa sobre a relação entre intelectuais brasileiros, o Estado Novo e o PCB. É autor do livro Armas de papel: Graciliano Ramos, as Memórias do cárcere e o Partido Comunista Brasileiro (2016).
Odile Cisneros is an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. With Richard Young, she coauthored a Historical Dictionary of Latin American Literature (2011). She is coeditor of Novas: Selected Writings of Haroldo de Campos with A.S. Bessa (2007). Cisneros specializes in the Latin American historical avant-gardes, modern and contemporary Brazilian poetry, Mexican literature, and literary translation. Her recent project, ecopoesia.com: An Online Resource on Environment & Poetry from Latin America, is funded by Canada's Social Sciences and the Humanities Research Council.
Maria Luisa Coelho is a post-doctoral fellow at CeHum, Universidade do Minho, where she is developing a project entitled Portuguese Artists and Writers in Britain (1950–1986): Cultural Networks and Identities in Transit (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia; grant SFRH/BPD/112293/2015). She has also been a lecturer at the University of Reading and a tutor at the University of Oxford. She has been researching diasporic representations in art and literature and is particularly interested in the migration of Portuguese artists and writers across Europe throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Her recent publications include New Perspectives in Diasporic Experience, which she co-edited and to which she contributed a chapter ("Visual Diasporas in the Feminine: the case of Aurore de Sousa"). [End Page 159] She also has a forthcoming chapter on the Portuguese artist Helena Almeida in the volume Feminine Singular: Women Growing up through Life-writing in the Luso-hispanic World.
Paulo Teixeira Iumatti é professor livre-docente da área de História do Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros da Universidade de São Paulo (IEB-USP). Possui doutorado em História Social pela Universidade de São Paulo. É autor de Diários políticos de Caio Prado Jr: 1945, Caio Prado Jr.: uma trajetória intelectual e Arte e trabalho: aspectos da produção do livro em São Paulo (1914–1945), entre outras publicações. Tem desenvolvido trabalhos com perfil predominantemente interdisciplinar, que abordam temas como a história do livro, a cantoria nordestina, a literatura de cordel e os vínculos entre produção do conhecimento, historiografia e instituições no Brasil. Atualmente, sua principal pesquisa versa sobre a tópica e o gênero do Marco na cantoria e na literatura de cordel entre finais do século XIX e as primeiras décadas do século XX.
Marcelo da Rocha Lima Diego é bacharel em Letras e mestre em Literatura Comparada pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Atualmente, prepara-se para defender a tese de doutorado junto ao Departamento de Espanhol e Português da Universidade de Princeton.
Paul Melo e Castro is a lecturer in Portuguese at the University of Leeds. He is currently working on the analysis and translation of Goan short fiction as a part of the Fapesp thematic project "Pensando Goa."
Martha S. Santos is an Associate Professor of history at the University of Akron, Ohio, where she teaches Latin American history. Her research specializations include gender history, slavery and emancipation, violence and the history of popular culture in nineteenth-century Brazil. She is working on a book...
