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David R. Castillo is Director of the Humanities Institute at SUNY Buffalo and Professor of Spanish in the department of Romance Languages and Literatures, where he served as Chair between 2009 and 2015. He is the author of Baroque Horrors: Roots of the Fantastic in the Age of Curiosities and Awry Views: Anamorphosis, Cervantes, and the Early Picaresque, and co-author of Zombie Talk: Culture, History, Politics. Castillo has also co-edited Reason and Its Others: Italy, Spain, and the New World. William Egginton is a philosopher and literary scholar at the Johns Hopkins University, where he is the inaugural director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, holds the Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities, and chairs the department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures. He is the author, editor, or translator of more than a dozen books, including How the World Became a Stage (2003), Perversity and Ethics (2006), A Wrinkle in History (2007), The Philosopher's Desire (2007), The Theater of Truth (2010), In Defense of Religious Moderation (2011), and The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered In the Modern World (2016). |