Susanne Goumegou Editor

Sebastian Thies holds the chair for Ibero-American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Tübingen. He was convenor of the Research Training Network “Entangled Temporalities in the Global South” and was one of the coordinators of the BMBF/DAAD thematic network “Futures under construction in the Global South” (2018-20). His research interests include Global South Studies and Latin American literature, film and media studies. He recently co-edited The Routledge Handbook to the Culture and Media of the Americas.

Susanne Goumegou is Professor of French and Italian Literature at the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Tübingen and director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies. In addition to her research in French and Italian literature on dream, theory of fiction and illusion, she has worked in Global South Studies with a focus on Francophone Literatures in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has published on African literature in Contracampo: Brazilian Journal of Communication, Études Littéraires Africaines and Philosophia Africana.

Georgina Cebey is a faculty member at the School of Architecture of the Autonomus University of Baja California (UABC) and a member of the National System of Researchers of Mexico. She received her PhD in Art History from the National Autonomus University of Mexico (UNAM). Her work focuses on the history of Mexican architecture, with emphasis on the representation of architecture in art and media. In 2017 her book Arquitectura del fracaso won the Vasconcelos national essay prize in Mexico.