Fernando Degiovanni Editor

Fernando Degiovanni is professor of Latin American, Iberian, and Latino cultures at The Graduate Center, CUNY. His research focuses on issues of nationalism and cosmopolitanism, cultural hegemony, and performance in early twentieth century Argentina. He is the author of Los textos de la patria: Nacionalismo, políticas culturales y canon en Argentina (2007), and Vernacular Latin Americanisms: War, the Market, and the Making of a Discipline (2018). In 2010, he was awarded the IILI's Alfredo Roggiano Prize for Latin American Cultural and Literary Criticism, and in 2019, he received the LASA's Southern Cone Studies Section Award for Best Book in the Humanities. He is the current president of the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI). Javier Uriarte is Associate Professor of Latin American literature at Stony Brook University. His research interests include travel writing, environmental humanities, the Amazon, territorial imagination in Latin America, theories of space and place, war and representation. He has published The Desertmakers: Travel, War, and the State in Latin America (2020), and two co-edited books: Entre el humo y la niebla: Guerra y cultura en América Latina (2016) and Intimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the Amazon (2019). The Spanish-language manuscript of The Desertmakers won Uruguay's 2012 National Prize for Literature.