Sylvia Molloy (1938-2022) was a novelist, essayist, and leading literary critic of Latin American literature. Her critical works include At Face Value: Autobiographical Writing in Spanish America and Hispanisms and Homosexualities. She authored two novels in Spanish and several books of short prose pieces. Molloy was a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. She served as president of the Modern Language Association and of the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana. Diana Taylor is university professor of performance studies and Spanish at New York University. She is the author of several books, most recently ¡Presente! The Politics of Presence. She is the founder and former director of the Hemispheric Institute and was a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. She is a current member of the Academy of Arts and Science.