Louise O. Vasvári’s interests include medieval literature, socio-linguistics, folklore, translation theory, Hungarian, and Holocaust studies (all informed by gender theory). She has published widely in these areas, ranging from medieval Spanish, Italian, and English to queer theory, the latter in particular in relation to emerging queer discourses in Hungarian. Related to the Spanish Romancero she has published The Heterotextual Body of the “Mora Morilla” (1999). She has also published, with Louise Haywood, A Companion to the “Libro de Buen Amor” (2004), and, with Steven Tötösy, Imre Kertész and Holocaust Literature (2005) Comparative Central European Discourses of the Holocaust (2009), and Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies (2011). She currently has in press Women’s Gendered Voices: Hispanic Studies in Comparative Culture and the Romancero.

Susana Draper’s areas of interest include contemporary Latin American literature and political theory, memory and human rights studies, social movements, 1968 studies, Latin American Marxism, contemporary feminist practices and philosophies in the Americas, and prison writing. She is the author of Ciudad posletrada y tiempos lúmpenes: crítica cultural y nihilismo en la cultura de fin de siglo (2009), Aferlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Post-Dictatorship Latin America (2012), México 1968: experimentos de la libertad, constelaciones de la democracia (2018), and 1968 Mexico: Constellations of Freedom and Democracy (2018). She is currently working on a book of essays, (Marxist) Women-Philosopher-Activists: Poetics and Politics of Liberation in the Americas, that focuses on key figures and moments in women’s critical Marxism and the struggles of liberation in the Americas and South of Europe.