Introduction

Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla is assistant professor in public and digital humanities, Latinxborder literature and culture, and Spanish as a heritage language at the University of Texas, San Antonio. As a transborder interdisciplinary scholar, her research, teaching, and service lie at the intersection of digital and public humanities analysis and the design and development of scholarship and creative work centered in US-Mexico and transnational Latinx literature, archives, languages and cultures. She edited “Borderlands Digital Humanities” (2020), a bilingual special issue of the online journal Reviews in DH.

Marissa López is associate graduate dean for diversity, inclusion, and admissions as well as professor of English and Chicana/o and Central American studies at UCLA. She researches Chicanx literature from the nineteenth century to the present with an emphasis on nineteenth-century Mexican California. She has written two books: Chicano Nations (New York University Press, 2011) is about nationalism and Chicanx literature from the early-1800s to post-9/11. Racial Immanence (New York University Press, 2019) explores uses of the body and affect in Chicanx cultural production.

Moacir P. de Sá Pereira is a scholar of literature and space and the research data librarian at Columbia University Libraries.