John Morán González (Ph.D. Stanford University, 1998) is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. He is author of Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature (2009) and The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels (2010). His articles and reviews have appeared in American Literature, American Literary History, Aztlán, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Symbolism, Western Historical Quarterly and Western American Literature. He edited The Cambridge Companion to Latina/o American Literature (2016).

Llaura Lomas (Ph.D. Columbia University, 2001) is Associate Professor in the English Department at Rutgers University-Newark, where she teaches Latina/o and comparative American literature. Her first book Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects and American Modernities (2008), won the Modern Language Association (MLA) Prize for Latina/o and Chicana/o literature and an honourable mention from the Latin American Studies Association's Latina/o Studies Section. She is currently writing a monograph on Lourdes Casal and interdisciplinarity and preparing an anthologies of Casal's collected writings. Lomas has published essays and book chapters most recently in Small Axe, The Latino Nineteenth Century, Translation Review, Cuban Studies, and American Literature.