Rolena Adorno is Sterling Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. Her teaching and research focus on colonial Spanish American literary and cultural history and the nineteenth-century origins of Hispanism in the United States. Appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Council on the Humanities, an Honorary Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima, Peru, and the 2014 recipient of the Modern Language Association Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award.

Ivan Boserup has been with The Royal Library in Denmark since 1969 has been Keeper of Manuscripts and Rare Books since 1999. With Rolena Adorno he has co-authored codicological studies on the autograph manuscripts of the seventeenth-century Peruvian chroniclers Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala and Martin de Murua.