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  • Contributors

Sebastián Carenzo is a research professor at the Instituto de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y Tecnología of the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He also teaches at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and the Fundación Universidad del Cine. His current research focuses on the ethnographic study of technologies and practices among waste collection and recycling workers in the informal waste management sector of Buenos Aires, with a particular emphasis on the social genesis of circuits that allow waste materials to be transformed into commodities.

Javier García-Liendo is an assistant professor of Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis. His research focuses on cultural and intellectual history, popular culture, and literature in twentieth-century Peru. His book El intelectual y la cultura de masas: Argumentos latinoamericanos en torno a Ángel Rama y José María Arguedas is forthcoming from Purdue University Press (2016). He is currently writing a book on local intellectuals and the production of cultural nationalism through radio and print culture in Peru.

Beatriz González-Stephan is Lee Hage Jamail Chair of Latin American Literature in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at Rice University. Her most recent books, Galerías del Progreso: Museos, exhibiciones y cultura visual en America Latina (Beatriz Viterbo, 2006), cowritten with Jens Andermann, and Cultura visual e innovaciones tecnológicas en América Latina: De 1840 a las vanguardias (forthcoming from Iberoamericana Verveurt, 2016), explore material culture and visuality in relation to problems of race and citizenship in nineteenth-century Latin America.

Horacio Legrás teaches Latin American literature and film in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of [End Page 113] California–Irvine. He is the author of Literature and Subjection (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) and Culture and Revolution: Violence, Memory and the Making of Modern Mexico (forthcoming from Texas University Press, fall 2016).

Dylon Robbins is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. He has published and carried out research on Brazilian and Cuban cinema, Walt Disney and Sergei Eisenstein, visual culture and war in the United States in 1898, and popular music and the African diasporas in the Americas.

Diego Semerene is a lecturer in global communications at the American University of Paris, teaching communicating fashion, visual culture, theory and communication, and digital storytelling and visual argumentation. His research borrows from queer theory, psychoanalysis, fashion history, and new media studies. He is a practicing filmmaker whose work has been screened at the Anthology Film Archives in New York and at international film festivals. He is also a film critic for the online magazine Slant. [End Page 114]

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