Juan Pablo Gil-Osle completed his doctorate at the University of Chicago. Currently he is professor of Spanish Golden Age literature at Arizona State University, Tempe, after having held positions at the University of Michigan and Arkansas State University. His recent books focus on the representations of friendship and networking in early modern culture: Amistades imperfectas: del Humanismo a la Ilustración con Cervantes and Los cigarrales de la privanza y mecenazgo en Tirso de Molina.

Frederick A. de Armas is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where he has also served as Chair of the Department and Director of Graduate Studies. He has been President of the Cervantes Society of America and President of AISO. He has been honored with a doctorate honoris causa from the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) in 2018.