Bieke Willem is an assistant professor of Romance literature at the University of Cologne. She obtained her PhD in literature at Ghent University in Belgium (2014) and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley and as an assistant professor of Latin American literature and culture at Stockholm University. Her research focuses mainly on literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, environmental humanities, affect and memory studies.

Rebecca Seewald is a research assistant of Romance literature at the University of Cologne. Previously she worked at the department of comparative literature at the University of Bonn. Her research focuses on Latin American literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, studies of embodiment and memory, as well as sociological questions. She is currently working on her PhD project on violence and memory in academic settings.