Ariane Mildenberg is Senior Lecturer in Modernism in the School of English, University of Kent. She is the author of Modernism and Phenomenology: Literature, Philosophy, Art (Palgrave, 2017), the editor of Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2018), and the editor (with Carole Bourne-Taylor) of Phenomenology, Modernism and Beyond (Peter Lang, 2010). Her current book project investigates the dialogues between and postcritical aspects of modernist and postcolonial literature, focusing on how selected writers dismantle the hierarchies and binaries within language itself as a counteraction to imperialist and colonial discourse.
Patricia Novillo-Corvalán is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent. Her research is located at the intersections between modernist studies and Latin American literature and culture. She has published original articles in leading journals such as Woolf Studies Annual, Modernist Cultures, Comparative Literature, and the Modern Language Review. She has authored two books: Borges and Joyce: An Infinite Conversation (Routledge, 2011) and Modernism and Latin America: Transnational Networks of Literary Exchange (Routledge, 2018) and is the editor of the volume, Latin American and Iberian Perspectives on Literature and Medicine (Routledge, 2015).