Contributors
- Contributors
Paula Cucurella is a Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature at State University of New York Buffalo. She is currently working on a dissertation on autobiography and auto-affection.
Osvaldo De La Torre received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, concentrating on poetry and dictatorship in the Southern Cone. He currently lives in Chicago, Illinois.
María del Rosario Acosta López is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, and is currently a guest researcher in the “Normative Orders” Excellence Cluster, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2013–2014). She finished her Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, with a dissertation on the sublime and the political in Friedrich Schiller’s thought (2007). She is the author of books on German Romanticism (2006) and Friedrich Schiller (2008), and she has compiled books on Hegel (2007), Schiller (2008), contemporary philosophy of art (2008 and 2009), and contemporary political philosophy (2010, 2013). Some of her latest published works explore the relationship between Hegel’s political philosophy and the notion of [End Page 267] “community” within a certain contemporary French tradition (Derrida, Esposito, Nancy, and Agamben), and her current research project is a book on Hegel from the standpoint of said debate. She is also the main researcher of a project entitled “Narratives of Community: On Law and Violence,” which addresses possible encounters between contemporary political philosophy and the transitional justice process in Colombia.
Patrick Dove is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University, Bloomington. His research explores intersections between literature, philosophy, and politics in Latin America. He is author of The Catastrophe of Modernity: Tragedy and the Nation in Latin American Literature (Bucknell University Press, 2004) and is currently completing his second book, Literature and Interregnum, an exploration of literary responses to the crisis of esthetic and political modernity in recent Southern Cone narrative. He has also written on Peronism, political violence, and dictatorship and memory, among other topics.
Jorge J. E. Gracia is a State University of New York Distinguished Professor. He holds the Samuel P. Capen Chair in Philosophy and Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo. He is the author of 20 books and more than 200 articles, and he has edited more than 20 volumes. Among his most recent publications are Debating Race, Ethnicity, and Hispanic/Latino Identity: Philosophical Dlalogues Between Jorge Gracia and His Critics (2014, with others), Thirteen Ways of Looking at Latino Art (2013, with Ilan Stavans), Painting Borges: Philosophy Interpreting Art Interpreting Literature (2012), and Images of Thought: Carlos Estevez’s Art (2009). He is currently working on a book on categories.
Erin Graff Zivin is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Spanish Department at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on constructions of Jewishness and marranismo in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic, esthetic representations of torture and interrogation, and the intersection of philosophy and critical theory. She is the author of Figurative Inquisitions: Conversion, Torture and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic (Northwestern University Press, [End Page 268] 2014), The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2008), and editor of The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism: Reading Otherwise (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Kate Jenckes is Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Reading Borges After Benjamin: Allegory, Afterlife, and the Writing of History (State University of New York, 2007). She is currently working on a book about witnessing beyond the human after the last military coups in Argentina and Chile.
Brett Levinson is a professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University, New York, author of Secondary Moderns (1996), The Ends of Literature (2002), Market and Thought (2004), and numerous articles on Latin American literature and culture and Western philosophy.
Elizabeth Millán is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. She is the author of Friedrich Schlegel and the Emergence of Romantic Philosophy (Albany, 2007). She is coeditor (with Jorge Gracia...
