Hilary Owen is Professor of Portuguese and Luso-African Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. She is the author or editor of several books, including Mother Africa, Father Marx: Women's Writing of Mozambique, 1948-2002, and (with Phillip Rothwell) Sexual/Textual Empires: Gender and Marginality in Lusophone African Literature.
Anna M. Klobucka is Professor of Portuguese and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA. She is the author or editor of several books, including The Portuguese Nun: Formation of a National Myth (2000) and (with Mark Sabine) Embodying Pessoa: Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality (2007).