Erin Graff Zivin is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She is the author of The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2008), Figurative Inquisitions: Conversion, Torture, and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic (Northwestern University Press, 2014), and Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading (Fordham University Press, forthcoming 2020), and the editor of The Marrano Specter: Derrida and Hispanism (Fordham University Press, 2017) and The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism: Reading Otherwise (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).