Raul Marrero-Fente Bio

Raúl Marrero-Fente is Professor of Spanish and Law at the University of Minnesota. His research and teaching focuses on Colonial Latin America, early modern trans-Atlantic studies, and human rights. He is the author and editor of Trayectorias globales: estudios coloniales en el mundo hispánico (Iberoamericana/Vervuert: 2013); Coloniality, Religion and the Law in the Early Iberian World, a co-edited volume with Santa Arias (Vanderbilt University Press: forthcoming, 2013); Espejo de paciencia (2010); Bodies, Texts, and Ghosts. Writing on Literature and Law in Colonial Latin America (2010); Human Rights in Latin American and Iberian Cultures (2009), a co-edited volume with Ana Forcinito and Kelly McDonough; Epic, Empire and Community in the Atlantic World: Silvestre de Balboa’s Espejo de Paciencia (2008); Poéticas de la restitución. Literatura y cultura en Hispanoamérica colonial (2005); Perspectivas transatlánticas. Estudios coloniales hispanoamericanos (2004); Playas del árbol: Una visión trasatlántica de las literaturas hispánicas (2002); La poética de la ley en las Capitulaciones de Santa Fe (2000); and Al margen de la tradición: Relaciones entre la literatura colonial y peninsular de los siglos XV, XVI, y XVII (1999).  He is currently working on a book entitled A Global History of Imperialism and Colonialism in the Iberian World, 1400-1600.

Kimberly Theidon Bio

Kimberly Theidon is a medical anthropologist focusing on Latin America.  Her research interests include critical theory applied to medicine, psychology and anthropology, domestic, structural and political violence, as well as transitional justice, reconciliation, and the politics of post-war reparations.  She is the author of Entre Prójimos: El conflicto armado interno y la política de la reconciliación en el Perú (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos. first edition 2004; 2^nd edition 2009) and Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).  She is currently working on two book manuscripts.  The first is “Pasts Imperfect: Working with Former Combatants in Colombia,” which draws upon her research with former combatants from the paramilitaries, the FARC and the ELN.  The second is “Speaking of Silences: Gender, Violence and Redress in Peru,” an ethnographically grounded study of reparations, gender and justice.

Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba Bio

Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba received his PhD in Hispanic Literature from The University of Colorado at Boulder. He is an associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin where he teaches queer and gender issues in Latin American Literature, Film, and Culture. He has published the books La modernidad abyecta. Formación de discurso homosexual en Latinoamérica (Xalapa: Universidad Veracruzana, 2001) and Modernity and the nation in Mexican Representations of Masculinity (New York: Palgrave, 2007). He co-authored the book Desmantelamiento de las ciudadanías. Políticas del terror en Ciudad Juárez (2011). He has edited the volumes Entre las duras aristas de las armas. Violencia y victimización en Ciudad Juárez (2006), Gender Violence at the US-Mexico Border (2010), and Diálogos interdisciplinarios sobre violencia sexual (2012). He has also authored numerous articles and book chapter on sexualities, violence, and border issues. His areas of interest are queer Latin American Studies, gender violence, and the representations of criminal organizations in Mexico.