Jacques Lezra is professor of Spanish at the University of California–Riverside, where he teaches classes on Spanish and Latin American literature, culture and philosophy. His most recent books are República salvaje: De la naturaleza de las cosas(2019), On the Nature of Marx’s Things (2018), and Untranslating Machines: A Genealogy for the Ends of Global Thought (2017).  He is author of works on Cervantes, and of Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic (2010). With Emily Apter and Michael Wood, he is the coeditor of Dictionary of Untranslatables (2014).