Paulo Lemos Horta is the author of a series of books that center the agency of people overlooked and silenced in literary history, among them Marvelous Authors: Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights, Aladdin and The Annotated Arabian Nights (with Yasmine Seale) and Cosmopolitanisms (with Bruce Robbins). These works have been translated into several languages and received accolades including nonfiction book of the year in the Canadian press and notable book of the year mention in Buzzfeed and the Wall Street Journal. He has written for PMLA, Words Without Borders, The Los Angeles Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement. Work for the research kitchen is part of a new cycle of literary histories exploring Latin American and South Asian literatures in global markets. Articles from this new research have appeared in Interventions and the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Inquiry. He has served on the executive board of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature, for which he has also served as faculty, and the International Comparative Literature Association, where he co-organized a publishing workshop linking authors, translators, editors and publishers. Prior to joining NYUAD, where he is associate professor of creative writing and literature, he founded and designed a world literature program in Vancouver, Canada.