Magdalena López (PhD University of Pittsburgh) is a research fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies (University of Notre Dame, United States) and Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL, Portugal). She specializes in culture and literature in the Hispanic American Caribbean.María Teresa Vera-Rojas (PhD Universitat de Barcelona and University of Houston) teaches Latin American Literature at the Universitat de Lleida, and is a research member of ADHUC–Research Center for Theory, Gender, Sexuality at the Universitat de Barcelona. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, postcolonial feminism, and cultural and literary studies.