Héctor Hoyos is Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures and, by courtesy, of Comparative Literature and English at Stanford University, where he also directs the Center for Latin American Studies and the Center for the Study of the Novel. He trained in critical theory at Cornell University and in philosophy at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. Hoyos is the author of the monographs Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel (2015), on ideological critiques of globalization in the Latin American novel, and Things with a History: Transcultural Materialism and the Literatures of Extraction in Contemporary Latin America (2019), on the articulation of critique and new materialism in the region’s cultural production, both with Columbia University Press. He has co-edited one volume and four special issues on topics such as anticolonial jurisliterary thought, Roberto Bolaño, material culture, and contemporaneity. Hoyos is a former Alexander von Humboldt research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin. His current co-authored book manuscript is on García Márquez and the Law.