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Ignacio López-Calvo is a Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of California, Merced. He is the author of five books on Latin American and US Latino literature and culture: Written in Exile: Chilean Fiction from 1973–Present (Routledge, 2001); Religión y militarismo en la obra de Marcos Aguinis 1963–2000 (Mellen, 2002); “Trujillo and God”: Literary and Cultural Representations of the Dominican Dictator (University Press of Florida, 2005); Imaging the Chinese in Cuban Literature and Culture (University Press of Florida, 2007); and Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction: The Cultural Production of Social Anxiety (University of Arizona Press, 2011). In addition, he has edited the books Alternative Orientalisms in Latin America and Beyond (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007) and One World Periphery Reads the Other: Knowing the “Oriental” in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), and co-edited Caminos para la paz: literatura israelí y árabe en castellano (2008). He is the co-executive director of the academic journal Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World. He is currently completing a book titled Dragons in the Land of the Condor: The Nikkei in Peru’s Cultural Production.