Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra is an associate professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research centers on Latin American and African literatures, with a particular interest in large-scale comparative frameworks such as World Literature and the Global South. She is the author of the book The Dictator Novel: Writers and Politics in the Global South (Northwestern University Press, 2019). Her work has also appeared in the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, Studies in the Novel, Research in African Literatures, the Latin American Literary Review, and PMLA, as well as the edited collections Unmasking the African Dictator (2014), Global South Atlantic (2018), and the Oxford Handbook of Gabriel García Márquez (2022). She is co-director of the digital platform Global South Studies and currently working on a project about the influence of the Latin American literary “boom” on the international circulation of literatures from the Global South. Beginning in October 2023, she will be a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Cologne.