Contributors

Susana Draper is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. She is author of Ciudad posletrada y tiempos lúmpenes: Crítica cultural y nihilismo en la cultura de fin de siglo (in press), and she is currently working on The Prison, the Mall, and the Archive (Space, Literature, and Visual Arts in Postdictatorship Cultures), a book-length project on spaces and temporalities in contemporary Latin American cities, with a special focus on the transformations of prisons and clandestine detention centers (Punta Carretas, Lecumberri, ESMA, and “Olimpo”) and the works of literature, critical theory, and visual arts that problematize them.

Mark Hayward is an assistant professor in the Department of Global Communications at the American University of Paris. He has published translations from Italian and French. His research deals with contemporary Italian culture and national identity. He has published essays on Italian cultural policy, global elections, and economic discourses in popular culture.

David Kelman is an assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature at California State University, Fullerton. He has published articles in CR: The New Centennial Review and Comparative Literature. He is currently completing two book projects: Counterfeit Politics: Secret Plots and Conspiracy Narratives in the Americas and The Political Corpus: Politics and the Corpse in the Americas.

Hermann Herlinghaus is a professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Violence without Guilt: Ethical Narratives from the Global South (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), Renarración y descentramiento: Mapas alternativos de la imaginación en América Latina (Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2004), Narraciones anacrónicas de la modernidad: Melodrama e intermedialidad en América Latina (Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2002), Modernidad heterogénea (Universidad Central de Venezuela, 2000), and Alejo Carpentier (Text + Kritik, 1991). He is currently completing the book project A Global Aesthetics of Sobriety.

Horacio Legrás teaches Latin American literature and culture and critical theory at the University of California, Irvine. He has published Literature and Subjection (Pittsburgh University Press, 2008) and is currently working on a book project on the culture of postrevolutionary Mexico. He is also completing another manuscript on “Subalternisms in Latin America.”

Shaoling Ma is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She has published articles in Theory, Culture and Society, Angelaki, and Theory and Event. She is currently working on her dissertation on turn-of-the-century American and Chinese dystopias and utopias.

Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández is an associate professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Rochester. He is the author of Mexico’s Ruins: Juan García Ponce and the Writing of Mexican Modernity (SUNY Press, 2004), and his articles have appeared in LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory; Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos; Hispanic Journal; Texto Crítico; Revista de Estudios Hispánicos; New Centennial Review; Perspectives on Literature; and other journals. He is currently working on monographs on Latin American architecture and Sergio Pitol.

Ignacio M Sánchez Prado is an assistant professor of Spanish and International and Area Studies at Washington University in Saint Louis. He is the author of El canon y sus formas: La reinvención de Harold Bloom y sus lecturas hispanoamericanas (Cultura Puebla 2002) and Naciones intelectuales: Las fundaciones de la modernidad literaria mexicana (Purdue University Press, 2009). He has edited or coedited ten critical collections on topics revolving around Mexican literature, world literature theory, and Latin American cultural studies. He is currently completing a book on Mexican film and neoliberalism.