Gordana Yovanovich is the author of Julio Cortázar’s Character Mosaic (1991) and Play and the Picaresque (1999), and editor of The New World Order (2003). She has published articles in scholarly journals on the role of character and on play and improvisation. She is also the coordinator and founder of the only bilingual, interdisciplinary Latin American and Caribbean Studies master’s program in Canada.
Amy Huras is a graduate of the University of Cambridge (St. Edmund’s College) with an M.Phil. in Latin American Studies. Her M.Phil. dissertation “The Ambiguity of the Language Policy of the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1569–1600,” has led to a larger doctoral research project on the process of Castilianization in colonial Peru. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto.