Gerard Aching is professor of Africana and Romance studies and W. E. B. DuBois Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University. He specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Caribbean literatures and intellectual histories and the relation of literature, philosophy, and slavery in the Americas. He is the author of The Politics of Spanish American Modernismo: By Exquisite Design (1997), Masking and Power: Carnival and Popular Culture in the Caribbean (2002), and Freedom from Liberation: Slavery, Sentiment, and Literature in Cuba (2015). His current research and teaching focus on subjectivity in slave narratives, sugar production in the development of the modern transatlantic world, and the uses of critical fabulation for examining the Underground Railroad. His Underground Railroad Research Project, which entails field and archival work in central and western New York, informs his new book project, The Promise of Rebirth: A Contemporary Approach to the Underground Railroad.

Esther Allen is a professor at City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center and Baruch College CUNY. She translated, edited, and annotated José Martí: Selected Writings (2002), selected as a Los Angeles Times Notable Book. In 2006, the French government named her a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She has received two translation fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. Her translation of Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto won the 2017 National Translation Award. Her essays, translations, and interviews have appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Review of Books, Paris Review, Words Without Borders, Bomb, LitHub, The New Yorker, and other publications. Her current project is titled One Vast Question: The Life and Afterlife of José Martí (www.estherallen.com).

Isabel Alvarez Borland is distinguished professor emerita of arts and humanities in the Department of Spanish at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. Her books include Cuban-American Literature of Exile: From Person to Persona (1998) and Discontinuidad y ruptura en Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1982). She is coeditor of Negotiating Identities in Cuban American Art and Literature (2009) and of Identity, Memory, and Diaspora (2008). Her essays on Cuban and Latin American literature have appeared in scholarly journals such as Hispanic Review, MLN, and Revista Iberoamericana. In 2006, she codirected a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar for College Teachers: Negotiating Identities in Art, Literature and Philosophy: Cuban Americans and American Culture. Currently she is associate editor of Hispania and member of the Board of Directors of the Cuban Cultural Center of New York City.

Thomas F. Anderson is a professor of Latin American literature at the University of Notre Dame. He is a specialist in the literature, history, and cultures of the Hispanic Caribbean and is the author of Everything in Its Place: The Life and Works of Virgilio Piñera (2006); Carnival and National Identity in the Poetry of Afrocubanismo (2011), a translation of which is forthcoming in Cuba; and Piñera corresponsal: Una vida en cartas (2016). Anderson is cocreator and coorganizer, with Marisel Moreno, of the digital humanities projects Listening to Puerto Rico and “El Arte al Servicio del Pueblo: Carteles, Libros, Películas y Periódicos de la División de Educación de la Comunidad (DIVEDCO) de Puerto Rico.” He is currently working on his fourth book project, Cuban Intellectuals and the US Black Movement.

Yannelys Aparicio Molina, PhD in Hispanic Philology from the University of Granada with international mention, is a professor at the International University of La Rioja, where she is director of the doctoral program in humanities and social sciences. She has taught at Montclair State University and the University of Delaware and has held visiting teaching and/or research appointments at Princeton University, Columbia University, University of Texas at Austin, La Sapienza, and Charles University in Prague, among others. Her research is oriented toward Latin American literature, the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language, and language didactics. She has published Cuba, memoria e imagen: Siete acercamientos al séptimo arte desde la literatura (2021), Mujer, literatura y otras artes para el siglo XXI en el mundo hispánico (2022), and an annotated edition of El polvo y el oro by Julio Travieso (2021).

Anke Birkenmaier is a professor of Latin American literature and culture at Indiana University, Bloomington. She has published widely on Latin American and Cuban literature, sound studies, and international avant-garde movements. Her first and award-winning book, Alejo Carpentier y la cultura del surrealismo en América Latina (2006), explores Carpentier’s early years in Paris and collaborations with dissident surrealists and radio pioneers. Her book The Specters of Race: Latin American Anthropology and Literature between the Wars (2016) is a study of the interconnected scientific and literary networks challenging received notions of race and culture in the time between the two world wars. She is currently working towards a monograph on Latin American novels in the digital age and editing a collected volume, Alejo Carpentier in Context.

Zaida Capote Cruz (Havana, 1967), PhD in philological sciences (University of Havana) and MA-level specialist in women’s studies (El Colegio de México), is a researcher at Havana’s Instituto de Literatura y Lingüística. Her books include Tres ensayos ajenos (Pinos Nuevos Prize, 1994), Contra el silencio: Otra lectura de la obra de Dulce María Loynaz (Alejo Carpentier Essay Prize, 2005), La nación íntima (2008), Loynacianas (2017), and a critical edition of Loynaz’s Jardín: Novela lírica (2015). With Susana Montero, she coordinated Aproximaciones cubanas a los estudios de género (1999). She has collaborated in such collective works as Historia de la literatura cubana (2008) and Obras y personajes de la literatura cubana (2016), and she was the editor of volumes I (2013) and II (2018) of the Diccionario de obras cubanas de ensayo y crítica. Her forthcoming books include Estado crítico and Tribulaciones de España en América: Tres episodios de historia y ficción, winner of the Alejo Carpentier Essay Prize. Visit her coedited blog at https://asambleafeminista.wordpress.com.

Odette Casamayor-Cisneros, a Havana-born writer and scholar, is associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean cultural studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Centered on the Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx experiences, her current work examines self-identification processes and the production of counter-hegemonic knowledge in the global African diaspora. Previous publications include the 2013 book Utopia, dystopia e ingravidez: Reconfiguraciones cosmológicas en la narrativa postsoviética cubana and the collection of stories Una casa en los Catskillsin 2016. Her numerous award-winning academic, journalistic, and literary works are featured in renowned publications throughout the world. She earned a PhD in arts and literature at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and holds a BA in journalism from the University of Havana. Fellowships and grants from, among others, Harvard University, the Rockefeller Foundation, and UNESCO have supported her research.

Juanamaría Cordones-Cook is the University of Missouri Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Spanish. An Emmy-nominated filmmaker with an extensive record of published journal articles and award-winning books and documentaries, she has given image, sound, and movement to her research through her films. She has built a panoramic compendium and memory of Havana’s Black Renaissance through over thirty-five documentaries on prominent artists and writers of the African diaspora, with emphasis on Cuba. Five of her audiovisuals have been dedicated to the development and evolution of Ediciones Vigía and the design and production of its books, while highlighting technological changes and innovations in esthetic languages.

Mabel Cuesta is an associate professor of US Latino and Spanish Caribbean literature at the University of Houston. She holds a Licenciaturain Hispanic literatures from the University of Havana and a PhD from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has published In Your Face, Papi! Arte, Política y Sociedad Civil en Cuba (2022), In Via, In Patria (2016, 2019), and Cuba post-soviética: Un cuerpo narrado en clave de mujer (2012). She has edited Nuestro Caribe: Poder, raza y postnacionalismos desde los límites del mapa LGBTQ (2016) and coedited Asintomática: Escrituras del encierro en tiempos de coronavirus (2021) and Lecturas atentas: Una visita desde la ficción y la crítica a veinte narradores cubanas contemporáneas (2019). Her scholarly work has appeared widely in peer-reviewed journals in Cuba, the US, Mexico, Honduras, Canada, Brazil, Colombia, and Spain.

Roberto Ignacio Díaz is associate professor of Spanish and comparative literature at the University of Southern California, where he teaches and writes on Latin American cultural and literary history with a focus on transatlantic relations. He is the author of Unhomely Rooms: Foreign Tongues and Spanish American Literature (2002). He has published articles on the fiction of Jorge Luis Borges, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and Mayra Montero; the letters of Wallace Stevens and José Rodríguez Feo; and, most recently, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera Les Indes galantes. His monograph on the historical and textual convergences of Latin America and the field of opera, which includes a chapter on Cuba, is forthcoming.

Daylet Domínguez, PhD Princeton University, is an associate professor in the Spanish and Portuguese Department of the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Ficciones etnográficas: Literatura, ciencias sociales y proyectos nacionales en el Caribe hispano del siglo XIX(2021) and the coeditor of a special issue of the Journal of Atlantic Studies (2021) titled “Slavery, Mobility and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Cuba.” Her articles have been published in Revista Hispánica Moderna, Hispanic Review, Cuban Studies, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, and Iberoamericana, among others. She was named the 2022–2023 Wilbur Marvin Scholar of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University for her second book project, Caribbean Empire: Writing, Filibustering and Annexation in the Age of the Second Slavery.

Walfrido Dorta is assistant professor of Spanish at Susquehanna University. His scholarly interests focus on twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin American and Caribbean literature and culture, Latin American and Caribbean cinema, ecocriticism, visual and media studies, and critical and political theory. He is more specifically concerned with exploitation cinema, counter-hegemonic practices, postnationalism, and new forms of belonging and citizenship in Latin American and Caribbean cultural contexts. His most recently published articles on Cuban amateur and exploitation cinema have appeared in Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas and Transmodernity.

Paloma Duong is associate professor of Latin American studies and media studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she researches and teaches Latin American culture from an interdisciplinary perspective combining cultural studies, media theory, and political philosophy. Her book Portable Postsocialisms: New Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History, a study of Cuba’s changing mediascape and an inquiry on the post-socialist condition and its contexts, was published in 2023. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Art Margins, and Cuban Counterpoints: Public Scholarship about a Changing Cuba.

Kristin Dykstra is Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Saint Michael’s College. Her recent scholarly book chapters include “Triumphs of Verticality/Horizontal Reactivations: Forces at Work in and around Soleida Ríos’ Elegy for Ángel Escobar” in La futuridad del naufragio: Orígenes, estelas y derivas (2019) and a chapter on US poet-translator Daniel Borzutzky for American Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement (2018). Dykstra has published translations of complete poetry collections with companion essays, featuring the contemporary Cuban authors Reina María Rodríguez, Juan Carlos Flores, Ángel Escobar, Marcelo Morales, Rito Ramón Aroche, and Omar Pérez, as well as shorter selections by Soleida Ríos, Ricardo Alberto Pérez, Pedro Marqués de Armas, and Jesús Cos Causse. Dykstra has won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Grant for Literary Translation, and the Dean’s Award for Scholarly Achievement at Illinois State University.

Norge Espinosa Mendoza, poet, critic, and playwright, graduated with a specialization in theater studies from the Instituto Superior del Arte (ISA) in Havana. He is a theater consultant for Teatro el Público, one of Cuba’s main theater companies, and also works an LGTBIQ+ promoter and activist, organizing events and seminars. His books of poetry and of essays have been published in Cuba and other countries. His plays have been staged in Cuba, Spain, the US, Mexico, and other countries. Among his books are Notas en Piñera (2012), Escenarios que arden (2012), and Dejar las isla y otras alucinaciones (2020).

Ángel Esteban, professor of Latin American literature at the University of Granada, where he coordinates the master’s program in Latin American studies, has been a visiting professor at the University of Delaware (since 2003), Montclair State University (2009–2013), and Brown (2019). He is director of the Research Group of Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of Granada. His publications include more than seventy books – essays, anthologies, editions and group books – and more than two hundred articles and book chapters. His books include Gabo y Fidel: El paisaje de una amistad (2004), Literatura cubana entre el viejo y el mar (2006), De Gabo a Mario: La estirpe del boom (2009), Madrid habanece (2011), El flaco Julio y el escribidor: Julio Ramón Ribeyro y Mario Vargas Llosa cara a cara (2014), El escritor en su paraíso: 30 grandes autores que fueron bibliotecarios (2014), and El hombre que amaba los sueños: Leonardo Padura entre Cuba y España (2018).

Dunja Fehimović is a senior lecturer (associate professor) in Hispanic studies at Newcastle University. She holds a PhD in Spanish from the University of Cambridge. Her work spans national and regional (Caribbean) identities, as in the 2018 monograph National Identity in 21st-Century Cuban Cinema: Screening the Repeating Island; neoliberalism and branding, as in the 2018 coedited volume Branding Latin America: Strategies, Aims, Resistance (with Dr. Rebecca Ogden); and ethics and otherness, as in the 2021 special dossier on Carlos Lechuga’s Santa y Andrés, in Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas, coedited with Professor Ruth Goldberg. Her most recent project examines (de)colonial ecologies in Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican film. She is the cofounder (with Professor Mary Leonard, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez) of Caribbean Film Forum, a platform that aims to strengthen networks of filmmakers, curators, and scholars and raise the visibility of Caribbean cinema via screenings, conversations, and debates.

Víctor Goldgel-Carballo, PhD, Hispanic languages and literatures from the University of California, Berkeley, is professor of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Cuando lo nuevo conquistó América: Prensa, moda y literatura en el siglo XIX (2013), which won prizes for best book from the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and Casa de las Américas in Cuba. His other publications engage with a wide range of topics, including snobbery, piracy, slavery, and spectrality. A recipient of fellowships from the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, among others, he is currently finishing a new book titled Racial Doubt: Slavery, Passing, and Writing in Cuba.

Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann (they or she pronouns) is a scholar of Caribbean literature and intellectual history, a literary translator, and the author of Writing the Caribbean in Magazine Time (2021). Seligmann is an associate professor of Spanish and Caribbean studies at the University of Connecticut in the Department of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages and El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies. She is also a researcher in the Aimé Césaire group of the Francophone Manuscripts Team at the Institute of Texts and Manuscripts (ITEM) at the École normale supérieure in Paris and has published essays on topics of Caribbean intellectual history including translation, adaption, literary infrastructure, and literary magazines.

Jessica Gordon-Burroughs is a lecturer (assistant professor) in Latin American studies and visual culture at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland). Her essays have appeared in Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Cinema Journal, and Discourse, among other journals, and in collections. In 2020, her article “The Pixelated Afterlife of Nicolás Guillén Landrián: Migratory Forms” (JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies) was awarded the Best Essay in Latin American Visual Culture Studies by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). In 2022 she presented on this research at Documenta 15 (Kassel, Germany) and at the Cuban National Film Institute in Havana.

Marta Hernández Salván is associate professor of Spanish in the Hispanic Studies Department at University of California, Riverside, where she specializes in contemporary Caribbean cultural production. Other interests include post-Marxism, psychoanalysis, critical theory, and film. Her monograph Minima Cuba: Heretical Poetics and Power in Post-Soviet Cuba (2015) explores the exhaustion of the allegorical and melancholic rhetoric of the Cuban Revolution and the poetics of irony developed in the current biopolitical era. She is coeditor of Asedios a lo increado: Nuevas perspectivas sobre Lezama Lima (2015) and she has published numerous articles on Cuban cultural production and poetry in The New Centennial Review, Revista Hispánica Moderna, and Romance Quarterly, among others.

Par Kumaraswami is professor of Latin American studies and director of the Centre for Research on Cuba/Cuba Research Forum at the University of Nottingham. She completed a PhD (2004) in women’s testimonial writing from the Cuban Revolution. Her research interests lie in the forms, functions, and uses of literature in post-1959 Cuba. She has published extensively in the area of Cuban cultural studies, including, with Antoni Kapcia, Literary Culture in Cuba: Revolution, Nation-Building and the Book (2012) and her monograph The Social Life of Literature in Revolutionary Cuba: Narrative, Identity and Well-being (2016). She was the principal investigator for a five-year Leverhulme Trust research project (2014–2019) based in Granma province, Cuba, about culture, identity, nationhood, and globalization in the Cuban periphery. She is currently developing impact work on promoting local cultural heritage tourism in Granma, and completing a monograph on decolonizing Cuban literature.

Jill Lane is associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Latin American and Caribbean studies at New York University, where she teaches courses on Latin American theater, performance art, and activism. She has written about race and performance, including in her book Blackface Cuba 1840–1895 (2005), as well as contemporary performance art, with recent articles on Coco Fusco and Carlos Martiel.

Iraida H. López, professor emerita of Spanish and Latinx and Latin American studies at Ramapo College of New Jersey, is the author of Impossible Returns: Narratives of the Cuban Diaspora (2015) and La autobiografía hispana contemporánea en los Estados Unidos (2001), which received, in manuscript form, the first Research and Dissertation Award of the Latin American Studies Association’s Latino Studies Section. She is coeditor of Let’s Hear Their Voices: Cuban American Writers of the Second Generation (2019) and the editor of Ena Lucía Portela’s annotated Cien botellas en una pared (2010) and El viejo, el asesino, yo y otros cuentos(2009). López’s articles have appeared in edited volumes devoted to Cuban American and Latinx literatures, as well as in peer-reviewed journals in the US, Cuba, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Spain, and Russia. Dr. López was a Fulbright Scholar at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and the University of Chile in fall 2019.

Jacqueline Loss is a professor of Latin American literary and cultural studies at the University of Connecticut. She is author of Dreaming in Russian: The Cuban Soviet Imaginary(2013) and Cosmopolitanisms and Latin America: Against the Destiny of Place(2005), and coeditor of Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience(with José Manuel Prieto, 2012) and New Short Fiction from Cuba (with Esther Whitfield, 2007). Her translation of Jorge Mañach’s An Inquiry into Choteo was published by Linkgua in 2018. Her essays and translations have appeared in Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Nepantla, Chasqui, Latino and Latina Writers, New Centennial Review, Bomb, Transnational Screens, Kamchatka, The Global South, Brooklyn Rail, and The Massachusetts Review, among other publications. She is currently codirecting a film entitled FINOTYPE with Juan Carlos Alom.

Emily A. Maguire is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University, where she specializes in literature of the Hispanic Caribbean and its diasporas. She is the author of Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography (2011, 2018) and the coeditor, with Antonio Córdoba, of Posthumanism in Latin(x) American Science Fiction (2022). Her articles have appeared in Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Small Axe, A Contracorriente, ASAP/Journal, and Revista Iberoamericana, among other places. Her second book, Tropical Time Machines: Science Fiction in the Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean, is forthcoming.

Lillian Manzor is associate professor of modern languages and literatures and hemispheric Caribbean studies at the University of Miami and founding director of the Cuban Theater Digital Archive (https://ctda.library.miami.edu/). She is coeditor of the book series Sualos, published by Havana’s Editorial Alarcos and Miami’s CTDA Press. Her latest book is Marginality Beyond Return: US-Cuban Performances in the 80s and 90s (2023). An innovator in using technology in her research, she has published a bilingual online exhibit Cuban Theater in Miami: 1960–1980 (http://scholar.library.miami.edu/miamitheater/) and the multimodal book El Ciervo Encantado: An Altar in the Mangrove (http://ciervoencantado.tome.press/). Her research has been funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the American Council of Learned Societies, the Ford Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, among others. As a community-engaged scholar, she has been involved in developing US–Cuba cultural dialogues through theater and performance since 1993.

Raúl Marrero-Fente is professor of Spanish and law and affiliated faculty in history at the University of Minnesota. He is academic numerary of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española and a correspondent member of the Real Academia Española. Before coming to Minnesota, he taught at Columbia University, the University of Richmond, and Miami University (Ohio), among others. He has been a visiting professor at the Council of Scientific Research (Spain), the University of Concepción (Chile), and the Inter-American University (Puerto Rico). As a cultural and legal scholar he has authored, edited, and coedited fifteen books and more than eighty articles in the field of colonial Latin American studies. Among his multiple books are Obra nuevamente compuesta … de Bartolomé de Flores (1571): Primer poema hispano de los Estados Unidos (2021), Poesía épica colonial del siglo XVI: Historia, teoría y práctica (2017), and Silvestre de Balboa: Espejo de paciencia (2010).

Jorge Marturano, PhD in Romance studies, Duke University, 2006, is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He has published Narrativas de encierro en la República cubana (1925–1967) (2017) and coedited Asedios a increado: Nuevas aproximaciones a Lezama Lima (2015). He is currently the director of the Program on Caribbean Studies (UCLA Latin American Institute), in which he has served previously as interim chair (2017–2018) and chair (2019–2021).

Vicente Medina is professor of philosophy at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, where he has been teaching since 1991. His areas of specialization are social and political philosophy and applied ethics. He also works on issues related to Latin American philosophy. His most recent publications are “Félix Varela en la antesala de la modernidad: Filosofía, eclecticismo y utilidad” (Inter-American Journal of Philosophy, fall 2020) and his book Terrorism Unjustified: The Use and Misuse of Political Violence (2015). Among his other articles are “The Philosophical Polemic of Havana Revisited” (Inter-American Journal of Philosophy, June 2013), “The Innocent in the Just War Thinking of Vitoria and Suárez: A Challenge Even for Secular Just War Theorists and International Law” (Ratio Juris, 2013), and “Militant Intolerant People: A Challenge to John Rawls’ Political Liberalism” (Political Studies, June 2010).

Mariselle Meléndez is professor of colonial Latin American literatures and cultures and Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) Alumni Distinguished Professorial Scholar at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She holds a BA from the University of Puerto Rico and an MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on issues of race and gender in colonial Spanish America, with special interest in the eighteenth century, the cultural phenomenon of the Enlightenment, food studies, environmental studies, and visual studies. She is the author of Deviant and Useful Citizens: The Cultural Production of the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Peru (2011) and Raza, género e hibridez en El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (1999), and the coeditor of Mapping Colonial Spanish America: Places and Commonplaces of Identity, Culture, and Experience (2002). Her articles have appeared in journals such as Latin American Research Review, Colonial Latin American Review, and Revista Iberoamericana, among others.

Adriana Méndez Rodenas is professor emerita of Spanish at the University of Iowa and the University of Missouri. She resurrected a pivotal figure in Cuban literature in Gender and Nationalism in Colonial Cuba: The Travels of Santa Cruz y Montalvo, Condesa de Merlin (1998), her critical edition of Viaje a la Habana (2008), and Les esclaves dans les colonies espagnoles (2005). Her essays on Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda have appeared on Eladd.org and in Hispanic Issues on Line (2017). She is an expert on travel writing, and her Transatlantic Travels to Nineteenth Century Latin America: European Women Pilgrims (2014) retraces women’s journeys to postindependence Latin America. She is currently engaged in a study of Swedish novelist Fredrika Bremer’s travels to Cuba and the American South. Her work has been supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for University Teachers, the Fulbright Distinguished Professorship at Uppsala University, and Notre Dame’s Institute for Advanced Study.

Lanie Millar is an associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese and comparative literature at the University of Oregon. She is a specialist in contemporary Cuban, Caribbean, and Lusophone African literatures. Her research examines the circulation of texts and ideas around the Atlantic world, through the frameworks of Global South studies, African and African diaspora studies, decolonization movements, and the global Cold War. She is the author of Forms of Disappointment: Cuban and Angolan Narrative after the Cold War (2019), in which she argues that the networks of racial and anticolonial solidarity forged between Cuba and Angola in the 1970s and 1980s continue to reverberate in post-Cold War literary and cultural practices. She has edited an issue of The Global South titled “Cuba and the Global South” (13.1, Spring 2019) and has published a range of articles on Cuban and Lusophone African literature.

Idalia Morejón Arnaiz is professor of Spanish American literature at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She has received research fellowships from the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) and the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq). She received the Essay Prize from the Spanish Embassy in Havana and the Agency of International Cooperation in 2005 and the Palabra de Hoy Essay Prize from the Asociación de Escritores Hermanos Saíz (Havana) in 1996. She is the author of Política y polémica en América Latina: Las revistas Casa de las Américas y Mundo Nuevo (2010) and coauthor of Escenas del yo flotante; Cuba: Escrituras autobiográficas (2017). She directs the Malha Fina Cartonera publishing imprint of the Faculty of Philosophy, Arts, and Human Sciences at the University of São Paulo.

Rachel Price is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University. She is the author of The Object of the Atlantic: Concrete Aesthetics from Cuba, Brazil and Spain 1868–1968 (2014) and Planet/Cuba: Art, Culture, and the Future of the Island (2015), and of essays on topics such as slavery, poetics, environmental humanities, and visual art.

José A. Quiroga (1959–2024) was professor of comparative literature at Emory University. Quiroga authored Cuban Palimpsests (2005), Tropics of Desire: Interventions from Queer Latino America (2000), Sexualidades en disputa (with Daniel Balderston, 2005), Law of Desire: A Queer Film Classic (2009), and Mapa callejero: Cronicas sobre lo gay desde América Latina (2010). His book project in progress at the time of his death, The Book of Flight, investigates the political relationship between dissidence and escape during the Cold War and in contemporary Latino America. He was also completing a coauthored book with Francisco Morán, The Havana Reader.

Dean Luis Reyes (Trinidad, Cuba 1972) is an independent scholar who has held invited teaching appointments at the International School of Cinema and Television (EICTV, Cuba) and the Chavón School of Design (Dominican Republic). His published books include Contra el documento (2005), La mirada bajo asedio: El documental reflexivo cubano (2012), La forma realizada: El cine de animación (2015, which also appeared in 2020 in Portuguese translation by Sávio Leite as A forma realizada: O cinema de animação), Werner Herzog: La búsqueda de la verdad extática (2016), and El gobierno de mañana: La invención del cine cubano independiente (2001–2015) (2020).

Pedro Pablo Rodríguez is the editor-in-chief of Obras completas: Edición crítica of the works of José Martí, an ongoing project of the Centro de Estudios Martianos, which fills twenty-nine volumes, with many more to come. A professor at the University of Havana, he has taught at universities across the Americas and Europe and is author of twenty books and more than a hundred articles on Cuban history and thought, with special focus on the nineteenth century, the life and work of Martí, and relations between Cuba and the US. Among his distinctions are the Orden Carlos J. Finlay, the Premio Nacional de Ciencias Sociales y Humanísticas, the Premio Nacional de Historia, and the Premio a la Dignidad, which he was awarded by the Union de Periodistas de Cuba in 2013.

Milena Rodríguez Gutiérrez (La Habana) is associate professor in Spanish American literature at the University of Granada. She is the author of Entre el cacharro doméstico y la Vía Láctea: Poetas cubanas e hispanoamericanas (2012) and Las poetas cubanas: Lo cubano, lo contemporáneo (forthcoming). From 2014 to 2021 she directed the research project “Las poetas hispanoamericanas,” funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation in Spain and by the European Regional Developmenb Fund (ERDF), and she has edited the volumes Casa en que nunca he sido extraña: Las poetas hispanoamericanas (2017) and Poetas hispanoamericanas contemporáneas: Poéticas y metapoéticas (2021), as well as the anthology Metapoéticas: Poetas hispanoamericanas contemporáneas (forthcoming). She is also the editor of the poetry anthologies El instante raro by Fina García Marruz (2010) and Otra Cuba secreta: Antología de poetas cubanas del XIX y del XX (2011). She has published three books of poetry.

Rafael Rojas, PhD in history from El Colegio de México, is a professor and researcher at the Centro de Estudios Históricos de El Colegio de México. He is a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Historia and editor of the journal Historia Mexicana. He is the author of numerous books on Cuban, Mexican, and Latin American intellectual, cultural, and political history. His latest book is La epopeya del sentido: Ensayos sobre el concepto de Revolución en México (1910–1940) (2022).

César A. Salgado is graduate advisor in comparative literature and associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of From Modernism to Neobaroque: Joyce and Lezama Lima (2001) and coeditor of TransLatin Joyce: Global Transmissions in Ibero-American Literature (2014) and La futuridad del naufragio: Orígenes, estelas y derivas (2019). With Alan West-Durán he has coedited two works of reference, Latino and Latina Writers (2004) and Cuba (2011). He edited and prologued La tumba de Buenaventura Roig (2008), a bilingual anthology of poems by Martín Espada, winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry. He regularly publishes opinion and literary essays in the online journals 80grados and Rialta and has been a keynote speaker at international conferences such as the 2019 James Joyce Symposium in Mexico City. His current book project is about archival survival and custodial sustainability in colonial Puerto Rico.

Elzbieta Sklodowska is a Randolph Family Professor of Spanish at Washington University in Saint Louis. She has published widely on cross-disciplinary topics pertaining to Latin America and the Caribbean, including books on parody, testimonio, and relations between Cuba and Haiti. Her 2016 monograph, Invento luego resisto: El Período Especial en Cuba como experiencia y metáfora (1990–2015), explores the ways in which literature, art, film, and political discourses in post-1991 Cuba reflect the dramatic changes after the collapse of the Soviet system. She is coeditor, with Mabel Cuesta, of Lecturas atentas: Visita desde la ficción y la crítica a veinte narradoras cubanas contemporáneas (2019), a critical anthology of Cuban women writers, both from the island and the diaspora. Currently, she is working on Alternative Lineages: Contemporary Cuban Women Writers and Artists and engaged in several projects related to the material, esthetic, and symbolic legacies of the Caribbean sugar plantation.

Camilla Stevens is a professor at Rutgers University, where she holds a joint appointment with the departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Latino and Caribbean Studies. Her research focuses on cultural identity and racial politics in Latin American and Caribbean theater and performance studies. Her book Family and Identity in Contemporary Cuban and Puerto Rican Drama (2004) offers a comparative analysis of how domestic drama allegorizes divergent views of Cuban and Puerto Rican national experience during the second half of the twentieth century. Her recent work, Aquí and Allá: Transnational Dominican Theater and Performance (2019), explores how contemporary Dominican theater and performance artists portray a sense of collective belonging shaped by the transnational connections between the homeland and the diaspora. She has held numerous administrative posts, including director of the Center for Latin American Studies and associate director of the Rutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies.

Ann Marie Stock, PhD University of Minnesota, is a specialist in Cuban film and culture. She has authored and edited more than a hundred publications, including On Location in Cuba: Street Filmmaking during Times of Transition (2009) and World Film Locations: Havana (2014). She founded Cuban Cinema Classics to make available subtitled Cuban documentaries, and led the creation of an open-access resource devoted to Cuban cinema (https://libraries.wm.edu/about/passion-projects/cuban-media-project). She has been a fellow at the Fundación Ludwig de Cuba in Havana and the Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives and the recipient of grants from the MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). She has served on numerous festival juries, including Sundance and the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana. A Chancellor Professor of Modern Languages & Literatures at William and Mary, Dr. Stock is currently the Presidential Liaison for Strategic Cultural Partnerships.

David Tenorio is assistant professor of Latin/x American studies, performance, and queer studies, as well as a faculty affiliate in gender, sexuality, and women’s studies, cultural studies, and the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Their research lies at the intersection of critical infrastructures, new feminist materialisms, nightlife, performance, and queer/trans-worldmaking in Cuba, Mexico, and the US. Their writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Transmodernity, Lateral, Latin American Theatre Review, Centro Journal, The Global Encyclopedia of LGBT History, Cuban Studies, and JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Their current book Queer Nightscapes (forthcoming) examines the entanglements between affect and queer nightlife in Mexico and the US.

Vicky Unruh, professor emerita at the University of Kansas, specializes in Latin American narrative, theater, and literary-intellectual culture. She is the author of Latin American Vanguards: The Art of Contentious Encounters (1994) and Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America (2006); a coeditor, with Michael Lazzara, of Telling Ruins in Latin America (2009); the coordinator of a special issue on work for PMLA (October 2012); and, with Guillermina De Ferrari, coeditor of a dossier on Cuba’s Leonardo Padura for A Contracorriente (2015). Her articles have appeared in a wide range of refereed journals and edited books, including essays on Cuban narrative, theater, film, and literary culture. She is the recipient of research, teaching, and mentoring awards.

Alexandra T. Vazquez is associate professor of performance studies at New York University. She is the author of The Florida Room, chosen by Pitchfork as one of the best music books of 2022. Her previous book, Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music (2013), won the American Studies Association’s Lora Romero Book Prize in 2014. Her work has been featured in scholarly journals as well as public venues including small axe, American Quarterly, Social Text, and the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and in the edited volumes Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas (2016), Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign (2016), Keywords for Latina/o Studies (2017), Reggaeton (2009), and Pop When the World Falls Apart (2012). You can also find her writing on the great Celia Cruz in NPR’s “Turning the Tables” series.

Alan West-Durán (Cuba, 1953) is a poet, translator, critic, and essayist. He is the author of two books of poems and a book of essays, Tropics of History: Cuba Imagined (1997). Cuba: A Cultural History was published in 2017. He edited African Caribbeans: A Reference Guide (2003) and Latino and Latina Writers (2004). He was the editor-in-chief of the 2011 two-volume reference work titled Cuba. He has translated the work of Alejo Carpentier, Rosario Ferré, Luisa Capetillo, Nelly Richard, and Nancy Morejón. He was an editor of the webzine Cuban Counterpoints (2015–2018) and since 2019 he has been a regular contributor to Rialta, an online cultural journal, writing on literature, music, painting, and art. Currently, he is working on a book about Afro-Cuban religions and the arts (literature, music, painting, film), titled El perro tiene cuatro patas pero toma un solo camino.

Bretton White is associate professor of Spanish at Colby College, where she teaches courses on Latin American theater and performance, Caribbean cultural studies, and Spanish language. She is the author of Staging Discomfort: Performance and Queerness in Contemporary Cuba (2020), which examines theatrical responses to the state’s support of heterosexual masculinity as a component of the ideal citizenry. She is currently working on a new project that explores the role of spectator-participants in art and activism in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic, including performance art, sculpture, and installations.

Esther Whitfield is associate professor of comparative literature and Hispanic studies at Brown University. She is author of Cuban Currency: The Dollar and ‘Special Period’ Fiction (2008); the coeditor, with Jacqueline Loss, of New Short Fiction from Cuba (2007) and, with Anke Birkenmaier, of a collection of essays on post-1989 Havana, Havana Beyond the Ruins (2011); and the editor of a critical edition of Antonio José Ponte’s Un arte de hacer ruinas y otros cuentos (2005). She has published articles on literary writing in post-Soviet Cuba; Welsh writing in Patagonia; and borders, surveillance, and cultural production at and around the Guantánamo naval base.

Zaira Zarza is an assistant professor in the Department of Art History and Film Studies at Université de Montréal. She obtained her PhD in cultural studies at Queen’s University and holds a BA and an MA in art history from the University of Havana. She was a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta and a Cinema and Media Arts Sessional Assistant Professor at York University. As a programmer, she has worked at the Toronto (TIFF) and Cartagena (FICCI) international film festivals. She also directed the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Film Festival, Boston, 2019. Zarza founded Roots and Routes (2015–), a project that promotes film and media works by Cubans in the diaspora, and published the book Caminos del cine brasileño contemporáneo (2010). Her current project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), focuses on Latin American documentary activism. Her other research includes Latinx-Canadian cinemas and the economies of Caribbean film.