Alejandro Meter (PhD, University of Pittsburgh) is a professor of Latin American literature at the University of San Diego where he teaches courses on the Jewish experience, the politics of memory, and social justice in Latin America. As a photographer, Professor Meter works on long-term projects, and for the last few years has been photographing Latin American writers in a variety of contexts such as the US-Mexico Borderlands, Crime Fiction Writers, and the Latin American Jewish Diaspora, among others. His work has appeared in both print and digital media in the United States, Latin America, and Europe, and has been exhibited in the United States, Mexico, and Argentina.