Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez is Professor of Hispanic studies at Carnegie Mellon University. She holds a PhD in Hispanic Literatures and Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley. She received an NEH grant for a performance ethnography of an unknown chapter of immigrant Cuban theater, is a co-editor of Herencia: The Anthology of Hispanic Literature of the United States (2001), En Otra Voz: Antología de la Literatura Hispana de los Estados Unidos (2002), has published widely in Cuban, Latinx, and Sephardic studies, and is also a translator. Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela is a reader in Latin American culture at King's College London. Her research focuses on the complex historicising and locating of Latin American cultural production. Her publications have ranged over seventeenth-century women's writing (Colonial Angels, 2000), the nineteenth century, (Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones: Illuminating Gender and Nation, 2012), and contemporary Latin American/x literature. She also plays a leading role in curriculum reform in the UK around Modern Language education.
