César Domínguez is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela, where he holds the Jean Monnet Chair “The Culture of European Integration”. His teaching and research focus upon theory of comparative literature, European studies, comparative studies in medieval literatures, cosmopolitanism, and world literature. In addition to numerous articles and books on these topics, he is co-editor of the ICLA Coordinating Committee’s two-volume Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula. He is secretary of the ICLA Coordinating Committee, chair of the ICLA Research Committee, member of the Academia Europaea, and vice-president of the Spanish Comparative Literature Association.

Theo D’haen is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Leuven University, Belgium, and earlier taught at Utrecht and Leiden, in The Netherlands. He has published widely on literatures in European languages, (post)modernism, (post)colonialism), and world literature. Recent English-language publications comprise, as author, The Routledge Concise History of World Literature (Routledge 2012) and American Literature: A History (Routledge 2014, with Hans Bertens), and as editor, Caribbeing: Comparing Caribbean Literatures and Cultures (Rodopi 2014, with Kristian van Haesendonck), World Literature: A Reader (Routledge 2013, with César Domínguez and Mads Rosendahl Thomsen), and The Routledge Companion to World Literature(Routledge 2012, with David Damrosch and Djelal Kadir).