Jens Andermann is a Lecturer in Latin American Studies at Birkbeck College, London, and co-editor of theJournal of Latin American Cultural Studies. Among his publications are Mapas de poder : una arqueología literaria del espacio argentino (Rosario, 2000) and articles for major journals in Argentina, Brazil, Europe and the US.

William Roweis Anniversary Professor of Poetics at Birkbeck College, London. His bookMemory and Modernity: Popular Culture in Latin America(London, 1991) has been translated into several languages. His most recent works, apart from translations of a wide range of Latin American poetry, arePoets of Contemporary Latin America: History and the Inner Life(Oxford, 2000) and Ensayos vallejianos (Berkeley and Lima, 2006).