Gene H. Bell-Villada is the Harry C. Payne Professor of Romance Languages at Williams College. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on Latin American and comparative literature, including Borges and His Fiction: A Guide to His Mind and Art (1981), García Márquez: The Man and His Work (1990; winner of the New England Council of Latin American Studies Best Book Prize, 1991), Art For Art's Sake and Literary Life (1996), and three edited collections on García Márquez. He has also published a memoir, Overseas American: Growing up Gringo in the Tropics (2005), and two volumes of fiction, as well as articles and reviews in popular venues, such as The Nation, Boston Review, and The New York Times Book Review,. Ignacio López-Calvo is Presidential Endowed Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Latin American literature at the University of California, Merced. He is the author of more than ninety articles and book chapters, as well as eight books on Latin American and US Latino literature and culture, including Saudades of Japan and Brazil: Contested Modernities in Lusophone Nikkei Cultural Production (2019); Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Tusán Literature and Knowledge in Peru (2014); and Written in Exile. Chilean Fiction from 1973-Present (2001). He has also edited and coedited seventeen other books. He is the co-founder and co-executive director of the journal Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World and the co-executive director of the book series "Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia" and "Anthem Studies in Latin American Literature and Culture Series."