Alfred J. López is Professor and Head of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Director of Global Studies, and Director of Latin American and Latino Studies at Purdue University, Indiana. His publications include José Martí: A Revolutionary Life (University of Texas Press, 2014) and A Posthumous History of José Martí: The Apostle and his Afterlife (Routledge, 2023). López was also the founding editor of The Global South (Indiana University Press, 2007- ), the leading journal of globalization and Global South studies.

Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo is Assistant Professor of English at Rhode Island College. He is the author of Children of Globalization: Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in Germany, England, and the United States (Routledge, 2021). His essays have appeared in Literary Geographies, Norteamérica, The North Meridian Review, and Chasqui, and in several edited volumes.