Walter D. Mignolo is Director of the Institute for Global Studies in Humanities, William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, and Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. He is the author ofThe Idea of Latin America;Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking; andThe Darker Side of The Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality and Colonizationand a co-editor ofRereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Religious and Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires.
Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernaacute;ndez is Assistant Professor of Gender and Womenrsquo;s Studies at the University of Arizona.