Eduardo Ledesma is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA). He received his PhD in Romance languages and literatures from Harvard University in 2012 and his BS in civil engineering from UIUC in 1995. He is the author of Radical Poetry: Aesthetics, Politics, Technology and the Ibero-American Avant-Gardes (1900-2015) (2016), supported by a Fulbright Research Grant to Spain. His second book is titled Expanding Cinemas: Experimental Filmmaking Across the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic Since 1960 (2024). His latest book project, Blind Cinema, which studies films by blind filmmakers, has been awarded an NEH Fellowship.

Luisa Elena Delgado was Professor Emerita of Spanish, Criticism and Interpretive Theory, and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA). Among her many publications we might highlight La nación singular: Fantasías de la normalidad democrática Española (2014), finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Spain in the category of essay. She also co-edited (with Pura Fernández and Jo Labanyi) Engaging the Emotions in Spanish Culture and History (2016). In addition, she co-edited with Jo Labanyi Modern Literatures in Spain (2023), co-authored with Helena Buffery, Kirsty Hooper and Mari José Olaziregi.