Zac Zimmer is finishing his Phd dissertation "Utopia and Commons: Place, Non-Place, and the American Blank Slate" in the Romance Studies Department at Cornell University. His research interests include Latin American literature, technologies of authorship, and the relationship between aesthetics and politics. Zac served as a Mellon-funded graduate student fellow at Cornell's Society for the Humanities in 2009-2010. His work has been published in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, and he is a contributor to Revista Otra Parte (Buenos Aires).