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Academic Degrees: A. B., Universidad de Salamanca; Diploma of Higher Studies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University

Research Interests: Modern Spanish Literature and Culture (18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries); Spanish, Latin...

Doris Sommer is the Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies, also in Social Studies. She is founder of "Cultural Agents," an Initiative at Harvard and an NGO dedicated to reviving...

Research interests: 20th and 21st-century Latin American poetry, fiction, and autobiography; queer and gender studies; women writers and the canon; world literature; translation.

Christine Legros is a PhD Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures at...

Research Interests: 19th- and 20th-Century Latin American Literature; Travel Writing; Globalization and Cosmopolitanism; Marxism; Psychoanalysis

Academic Degrees: B.A. in Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; M.A., Ph.D., in Comparative...

Bruno Carvalho specializes in urban life and how cities change. He is the author of The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World (Princeton University Press, forthcoming in January 2026).The book opens in the 1750s, when city...

Research interests: the intersections between literary studies and the histories of science, medicine, and technology; art and architectural history; nonhuman and eco-critical theory; and metaphor theory. 

Teaching interests: besides pre-modern texts from...

Academic Degrees: Laurea in Lettere, Diploma di perfezionamento, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”

Research Interests: Renaissance culture; intellectual history; modern and contemporary Italian novel; literature and politics.

Erspamer’s book reviews appear...