Irene Gómez-Castellano is an Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of La cultura de las máscaras, a study on masculinity, identity and poetics in eighteenth-century Spain. She has published numerous articles about interdisciplinary topics related to Modern and Contemporary Spanish Culture. Aurélie Vialette is an Associate Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University. She is the author of Intellectual Philanthropy: The Seduction of the Masses, a study on the cultural production that responds to the workers’ educational and social phenomena in nineteenth-century Iberia.