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Andrés Pérez-Simón has been a professor of English literature and literary criticism at the UAM since 2020. He previously taught Spanish literature at Indiana University (2010-11) and the University of Cincinnati (2011-20). He is the author of Drama, literatura, filosofía: Itinerarios del realismo y el modernismo europeos (Madrid: Fundamentos, 2015) and Baroque Lorca: An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage (New York: Routledge, 2020). He is also editor and translator of the fifteen-essay volume 'Despistemes': La teoría literaria y cultural de Emil Volek (Madrid: Verbum, 2018) and co-editor of the essay collection Structuralism(s) Today: Paris, Prague, Tartu (Ottawa: Legas Press, 2009). He is currently working on a book about the Spanish translations of James Joyce from 1924 to 1964.

His main areas of interest are literary theory, with an emphasis on Slavic theory (Russian Formalism, Prague School, Bakhtin Circle), comparative literature and literary translation studies. In 2025 he organized the 34th Joyce Conference of the Spanish James Joyce Association at the UAM. Two of his most recent essays are "Paths of Evolution: A Reading of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Martín-Santos' Time of Destruction," in Estudios Irlandeses – Journal of Irish Studies 19 (2024): 72-85; and "El encuentro de Neruda y Joyce a través de la traducción: una lectura contextual," in Ínsula 922 (Oct. 2023): 23-27. He serves as a reviewer for numerous academic journals and has extensive editorial board experience (Transverse, Anagnórisis, Cincinnati Romance Review). He is currently associate editor of the journal of general and comparative theater Pygmalion, published by the UCM.

Rosa María Bautista Cordero has been a professor of translation at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid since 2019. She previously taught at the Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio, the ILMyT at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and New York University. Her most recent publications include the books John Dos Passos's Transatlantic Chronicling: Critical Essays on the Interwar Years (ed.) (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2022), and the critical edition and translation of Manhattan Transfer (Madrid: Cátedra, 2018).

She has translated numerous English-language authors, including Bruce Chatwin, V.S. Naipaul, Erica Jong, Hugh Thomas, Amos Oz, Tom Wolfe, Graham Greene and Salman Rushdie. Her most recently translated books are Tour of Duty (2024) by John Dos Passos, Lo impensable (2022) by U.S. Congressman Jamie Raskin, and El perro negro del destino (2022) by PEN Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Peter Balakian, all published in the Literature and Human Rights series of Berg Institute.

Anastasia Belousova is an associate professor in the Department of Literature at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá). She holds a degree in Philology from Moscow's M. V. Lomonosov State University, a master's degree in Italian Studies from the University of Bologna and a Ph.D. in Philological Sciences from the Russian State University for the Humanities. She previously taught at the Faculty of Philology of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Since 2015 she has been a professor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, where she teaches courses on the history of European literatures and literary theory. She is a member of the team developing CPCL, the Comparative Poetics and Comparative Literature Information System. Her main research fields are versification, Russian and Italian poetry, poetic translation and comparative literature. Her recent publications include the co-edited volume Del Arno al Magdalena: Lecturas colombianas de Dante Alighieri (UTadeo/UNAL, 2025).

María de Fátima Benages Elena holds a predoctoral FPI contract at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where she completed her graduate studies and received the Talento Award for Best Master's Academic Record. Between 2023 and 2025 she held a Graduate Assistantship in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Cincinnati, where she combined her academic training with teaching Spanish courses and participating in outreach activities. Her time at Cincinnati was marked by the Graduate Student Association Research Fellowship and her service on the organizing committee of the XLV Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures. She also received a Research Initiation Grant from the University of Málaga for the 2025/2026 academic year.

Her research interests span contemporary poetry, ecocriticism and the blue humanities in North American literature from a comparatist perspective. She is the author of the chapter "The Poetics of Walking in Laurie Lee's As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning" (Tirant lo Blanch, 2024) and is a regular reviewer for The Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research (JACLR).

John Bengan has taught writing and literature at the University of the Philippines Mindanao. His translations have appeared in Words Without Borders, LIT, ANMLY, World Literature Today, Shenandoah, and The Margins. He co-edited Ulirát: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines. He was a David T.K. Wong Fellow at the University of East Anglia. His collection of short stories, Armor, won the Madrigal González Best First Book Award. He holds an MFA in creative writing from The New School. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in Artistic, Literary, and Cultural Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. His recent publications include a translation of "Baradero" in Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia 5.2 (2025) and a translation extract from The Man with a Thousand Names: Stories in PEN Presents 3 (2025).

Cristian Cámara Outes is an Assistant Professor at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid. He completed graduate studies in Literary Theory at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the Universidad Iberoamericana de México and subsequently earned his Ph.D. in Translation Theory from Charles University in Prague. Between 2013 and 2016 he was a lecturer in Spanish Literature at Southern Federal University (Rostov-on-Don, Russia). He was previously a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Slavic Literatures at the Université libre de Bruxelles.

His main lines of research are the literary theory of Russian Formalism and Czech Structuralism, translation theory and literary modernism in Central and Eastern Europe from a comparatist perspective. He is co-editor, with Petra James, of the Avant-Garde and Language section of Cultural History of East-Central European Avant-Gardes (Leiden: Brill, vol. I 1880s-1920s and vol. II 1920s-1950s). He is director of the SDVIG editorial series (Theoretical Texts of the Russian Avant-Gardes), in which he has published works by authors including Viktor Shklovsky, Yuri Tynianov, Boris Arvatov and Varvara Stepanova. His most recent translations are Richard Weiner, La silla vacía y otros relatos (Madrid: La Tortuga Búlgara) and Osip Brik, Formalismo, productivismo, factografía (Madrid: Ediciones Asimétricas).

Miguel Ángel Guerra has been a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication at Ghent University since 2025. After earning a degree in French Philology from the Universitat de Barcelona and completing a research master's in Comparative Literature at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4), he worked as an associate professor of French at the Universidad de Salamanca. In 2024 he received his Ph.D. in Translation Studies from Ghent University.

His doctoral research examined, from a sociohistorical perspective, the cultural and political value of French novel translation in 1950s Spain as a means of opposition to the Franco regime. This research focused on the foundational years (1956-1962) of the subsequently prestigious Biblioteca Breve series. Part of this work has been published in, or accepted by, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Mutatis Mutandis and Meta.

His current postdoctoral project, funded by Ghent University's Special Research Fund (BOF), proposes to reassess the so-called cultural "apertura" of the Franco regime in the 1960s from the perspective of translation studies. The project Transnational Apertura investigates how various translation practices shaped and destabilized Spanish culture during this period, focusing on six new editorial series in literature and the humanities created in that decade. More details about this project here.

Max Hidalgo Nácher is a professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the Universitat de Barcelona, where he teaches in the undergraduate program in Literary Studies and in the master's program in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature. He is the author of Teoría en tránsito. Arqueología de la crítica y de la teoría literaria españolas de 1966 a la posdictadura (Universidad Nacional del Litoral, 2022), the first volume of a research project on Los estudios literarios en Argentina y en España: institucionalización e internacionalización, coordinated with Analía Gerbaudo, who authored the second volume, Tanto con tan poco: Los estudios literarios en Argentina 1958-2015 (2024).

He has also edited José Bergamín's Los ángeles exterminados (Athenaica, 2023) and co-edited the collective volumes Julián Ríos y las metamorfosis de una escritura plural (Innombrable, 2023) and José Bergamín: entre literatura y política (Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2016). He is also a translator of the poetry of Fernando Pessoa: his translation and epilogue for the Obras Completas de Ricardo Reis (Valencia: Pre-Textos, 2025) represents a major contribution to the reception of Pessoa in Spanish.

His main research fields are the writings of Republican exile from the Spanish Civil War of 1939 and the circulation and uses of literary theory from the second half of the twentieth century to the present in Argentina, Spain, France and Brazil, which has led him to research stays at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Universidade de São Paulo, Centro de Referência Haroldo de Campos (São Paulo), Harvard University, Yale University and the École Normale Supérieure. He was co-director of the journal Puentes de crítica literaria y cultural and is co-director of 452ºF. Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada. He is currently completing an essay on Haroldo de Campos entitled Lenguaviajes de Haroldo de Campos. La biblioteca, el archivo, la traducción.

Craig Osterbrock earned his Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese from Yale University in 2024 with a dissertation on the poetics of translation of Brazilian poet-translators Augusto de Campos and Ana Cristina Cesar. Though his doctoral research centered on literary translation and the history of the book, more recent research traces modernist writing from its roots in the late nineteenth century to the present. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in peer-reviewed journals such as Theory Now, Hermeneus, and Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies, as well as in edited volumes such as The Routledge Companion to Ezra Pound (Eds. Mark Byron, Steven Yao, and Michael Kindellan, 2026) and Poesia-Crítica-Tradução: Haroldo de Campos e a educação dos sentidos (Eds. K. David Jackson and Eduardo Jorge, Peter Lang, 2022).