"Stephen M. Hart is Professor of Latin American Film, Literature and Culture at University College London (UCL). He has published widely on the life and work of Cèsar Vallejo, including Cèsar Vallejo: A Literary Biography (2013), and founded the Centre of Cèsar Vallejo Studies at UCL. He has been awarded an Order of Merit by the Peruvian State and elected as a Corresponding Member of the Peruvian Academy of Language. He has recently published a new biography of Santa Rosa de Lima and a critical edition of Santa Rosa's Apostolic Process in a research project funded jointly by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust.Zoltàn Biedermann is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies of University College London (UCL). He works on the Portuguese Empire in Asia with a focus on early modern diplomacy, imperial literature, cartography and the politics of space. He is the author of The Portuguese in Sri Lanka and South India (2014), The Historical Atlas of the Persian Gulf (2006) and Soqotra: Geschichte einer christlichen Insel im Indischen Ozean (2006).

He is the recipient of the Ronald Tress Prize for Research Excellence (2012), and has been recently elected a corresponding member of the Academy of the Portuguese Marine.".