Magali Armillas-Tiseyra is an Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Penn State-University Park. Her research centers on African and Latin American literatures, with a focus on the intersection of large-scale comparative frameworks, such as World Literature and the Global South, with local and regional specificities. Her first book, The Dictator Novel: Writers and Politics in the Global South, was published by Northwestern University Press in 2019. You can learn more about Dr. Armillas-Tiseyra on her faculty profile page.

Robin Bower is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Penn State Beaver. A medievalist, Bower’s primary research area is the emergence of vernacular romance verse in the Spanish Kingdoms of medieval Spain, particularly as those forms engage with inherited Latin traditions through remembrance, contestatory citation, and disavowal. Her interest in the politics of cultural memory extends to contemporary texts, as well as to this project. Her book, Making Saints of the Past in Medieval Iberia, is currently under review.

Charles is a 4th year Dual Title PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and African Studies at Penn State University. Her areas of expertise include sub-Saharan African Literature, Postcolonial Literatures, Theory and Criticism, Poetry and Poetics and Eco-criticism.

Neigh is an Associate Professor of English at Penn State Behrend. Her research interests include Caribbean studies, global modernism, postcolonial feminist theory, and poetry of the Americas. She is the author of Recalling Recitation in the Americas: Borderless Curriculum, Performance Poetry, and Reading (University of Toronto Press, 2017).