Born in Argentina, Daniel Blaustein has been living in Israel since 1987. He is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Romance and Latin American Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he has taught, among others: “Main trends in Spanish Literature”, “Readings in Literary Criticism” and “Contemporary Latin American Fiction”. He is also lecturer in the Department of Literature, TelAvivUniversity. His main areas of interest include Literary Theories and Criticism and Contemporary Latin American Narrative. He has translated several books and articles on literary criticism and Jewish History. 

Mauricio Dimant was the Convener of the LATAM Innovation and Entrepreneurship Club at the Hebrew University, Coordinator of the Latin American Unit at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Academic Mentor for the Internship Undergraduate Program in Latin American Studies, and a Co-Coordinator of Latin American Studies at the 12th German-Israeli Frontiers of Humanities Symposium organized by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Co-Coordinator of Research at the European Association of Latin American History (AHILA), Member of the Academic Committee of the Pontifical Foundation Scholas Occurrentes (The Holly See), and Editing Assistant for Revista Política y Sociedad, Complutense University of Madrid.
His research has been published in Contemporary Jewry, Israel Studies, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Revista Mediterránea de Comunicación, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Horizontes Antropológicos, Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly, among others. He received the "Order of Educational and Cultural Merit Gabriela Mistral" by the Chilean government.

 

Or Hasson is a senior lecturer in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies. He holds a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University (2015). Before joining the Department faculty, Or spent time as a Rothschild and a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University; a Mandel Fellow at the Mandel Scholion Center at the Hebrew University; and an Arnod Fellow at the Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies at Tel Aviv University. 

His research is dedicated, among other things, to the representation of madness in early modern Spanish literature; medical writing and its dialogue with contemporary literary fiction; converso and morisco Golden Age literature; and the Semitic—Arabic and Hebrew—heritage of the Iberian Peninsula and its place in early modern Hispanic thinking, memory, and imagination.