Ralph Bauer is associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is author or editor of numerous books, includingThe Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity. Jose Antonio Mazzotti is chair and professor in the Department of Romance Languages at Tufts University. He is author or editor of three books, includingPoeticas del flujo: migracion y violencia verbales en el Peru de los 80.