Isolina Ballesteros is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Barnard College/Columbia University. A specialist in contemporary Spanish literature and Spanish film, she has published essays on Spanish and Latin American women writers, the image of women in the post-Franco literature, and Spanish film after 1975, and two books: Escritura femenina y discurso autobiográfico en la nueva novela española (1994) and Cine (Ins)urgente: textos fílmicos y contextos culturales de la España postfranquista (2001). Currently she is working on a book entitled “Undesirable” Otherness: Immigration, Xenophobia and Racism in European Film.
Lou Charnon-Deutsch is Professor of Hispanic Languages and Literature at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. She has served as President of Feministas Unidas (1992–4) and is currently the American Editor of the Hispanic Research Journal. She also serves on the editorial boards of Letras Femeninas and Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. Her recent books include Gender and Representation: Women in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Realist Fiction (1990); Narratives of Desire: Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction by Women (1994); Culture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Spain (coedited with Jo Labanyi 1995); and Fictions of the Feminine in the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Press (2000). Her most recent work is entitled A History of the Imaginary Spanish Gypsy.
Anthony J. Close is Reader in Spanish at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. He has published extensively on Cervantes and the Spanish Golden Age, specializing in the interpretation of Don Quijote, the history of its reception, and the relation between it and the comic genres of the time. His latest book is Cervantes and the Comic Mode (2000).
Brad Epps is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. He is the author of Significant Violence: Oppression and Resistance in the Narrative of Juan Goytisolo (1996) and of over fifty articles on Spanish, Latin American, French, and Catalan literature, film, art, and culture. He is currently preparing a book on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered issues in Spain, Latin America, and US Latino cultures (Daring to Write), a collection of essays, with Luis Fernández Cifuentes, on literary history (Spain Beyond Spain), and a collection of essays, with Keja Valens, on homosexuality and immigration (Passing Lines).
Rebecca Haidt is Associate Professor of Spanish at Ohio State University. Her publications include Embodying Enlightenment: Knowing the Body in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Literature and Culture (1998), winner of the MLA’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for 1999, and Seduction and Sacrilege: Rhetorical Power in Fray Gerundio de Campazas (2002). She has served on several editorial boards including those of the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos and Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Roberta Johnson is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Kansas, where she served as Department Chair from 1992 to 1997 and director of the Hall Center for the Humanities from 1997 to 2000. She has written numerous articles on twentieth-century prose and books: Carmen Laforet (1981), El ser y la palabra en Gabriel Miró (1983), Crossfire: Philosophy and the Novel in Spain 1900–1934 (1993), Las bibliotecas de Azorín (1966), and Gender and Nation: The Spanish Modernist Novel (2003). She has received research grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others, has held a Fulbright lectureship in Spain, and has served on a number of national and international committees and editorial boards.
Adelaida López De Martínez is Professor of Spanish and Women’s Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has written widely on contemporary Spanish and Latin American literature, and has coordinated the publication of volumes such as
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: amor, poesía, soledumbre (1985),
Voces femeninas en la literature de la guerra civil española: una valoración crítica al medio siglo de historia (1986),
En honor de Victoria Urbano (1993),
Discurso femenino actual (1995),
A Ricardo Gullón: sus discípulos (1995),
Dynamics of Change in Latin American Literature: Contemporary Women Writers (1996),
Narradoras ecuatorianas de hoy: una antología crítica (2001). From 1985 to 2001 she was the General Editor of
Letras Femeninas, and continues to serve on the editorial boards of several
scholarly journals. Her academic work has been honored with a number of citations, including the 1981 Southern Council on Latin American Studies annual award to the best publication in the humanities for her essay “‘Las babas del diablo’: teoría y práctica del cuento en Julio Cortázar.”
Elisa Martí-López is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University. She is the author of articles on publishing practices and the novel market in nineteenth-century Spain. She has also written on the folletín and the formation of the canon in relation to the popular novel. Her book Borrowed Words: Translation, Imitation, and the Making of the Novel in Nineteenth-Century Spain (2002) studies the emergence of the novel in Spain in the middle of the nineteenth century.
Randolph Pope is Commonwealth Professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia. His field of specialization is the Peninsular novel and autobiography but he has also written extensively on other topics. He has taught at Barnard College, the University of Bonn in Germany, Dartmouth College, Vassar College, where he was Chair of Hispanic Studies, and Washington University in St. Louis, where he served as Chair of Comparative Literature for seven years. From 1991 to spring 2002 he was editor of the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. He has published three books – on autobiography, the Spanish novel, and on Juan Goytisolo – and some ninety scholarly essays.
Geoffrey Ribbans was for fifteen years Gilmour Professor of Spanish and editor of the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies at the University of Liverpool. He was William R. Kenan, Jr., University Professor of Hispanic Studies at Brown University, Providence, RI, from 1978 until 1999, when he became emeritus. He is the author of numerous studies on the fiction, intellectual history and poetry of Spain (including Catalonia) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His books include Niebla y Soledad: Aspectos de Unamuno and Machado (1971), History and Fiction in Galdós’s Narratives (1993), and Conflicts and Conciliations. The Evolution of Galdós’s “Fortunata y Jacinta” (1997).
Alison Sinclair is Reader in Modern Spanish Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. She has taught and published on both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and in comparative studies. Among her books and essays are
The Deceived Husband (1993), a comparative study ranging from the Middle Ages to the 1980s; a monograph on Valle-Inclán (1977);
Dislocations of Desire (1998), a new and sustained psychoanalytic reading of Alas’s late
nineteenth-century novel
La Regenta; and, most recently,
Uncovering the Mind (2001), on Unamuno. Her current work, on cultural and intellectual life in Spain, examines the cultural exchanges through institutions, publishing houses, and individuals between Spain, Europe, and Latin America from 1900 to 1936.
Gonzalo Sobejano, Professor of Spanish at Columbia University, is a member of the Order of Isabel la Católica, a recognition that honors a particularly distinguished career in teaching and scholarship in Spain, Germany, and the US. He is a specialist in Spanish poetry and prose of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as well as the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among his editions, monographs, collections of essays, and scores of articles are El epíteto en la lírica española (1956, 1970); Moderne spanische Erzähler (1963); Forma literaria y sensibilidad social and Nietzsche en España (1967); La novela española de nuestro tiempo (1970, 1975), which won Spain’s National Prize for Literature in 1971; and Clarín en su obra ejemplar (1985). His edition (1981, 1989) of La Regenta (1884–85) by Leopoldo Alas, now in its fifth printing, is widely cited in this volume.
Akiko Tsuchiya is Associate Professor of Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis and the Peninsular editor of the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. She is the author of a book on Galdós and has published widely on nineteenth-century Spanish narrative, as well as on Spanish women’s fiction of the post-Franco era. She is currently working on a book entitled Women on the Margins: Gender and Deviance in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature.
Harriet Turner is Professor of Hispanic Studies and Director of International Affairs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her publications include Galdós, “Fortunata y Jacinta” (1992); Textos y contextos de Galdós (coedited with J. Kronik, 1994); Niebla (coedited with R. Gullón, 1965); and a special issue of the journal Letras Peninsulares on the poetics of realism (2000), in addition to more than fifty articles and reviews. She has served as President of the International Association of Galdós Scholars (1985–88), as a member of several editorial boards, including the Nebraska Press, and as director of several international symposia and conferences.
Noël Valis is Professor of Spanish at Yale University. Among her publications are
The Decadent Vision in Leopoldo Alas;
The Novels of Jacinto Octavio Picón; and
In the Feminine Mode: Essays on Hispanic Women Writers (coedited with Carol Maier), as well as editions of Carolina Coronado’s
Poesías, Picón’s
La hijastra del amor, and Pereda’s
Bocetos al temple. She has also translated Pedro Salinas’s
Víspera del gozo as
Prelude to Pleasure and Julia Uceda’s poetry. In press are the second volume of
Leopoldo Alas (Clarín): An Annotated Bibliography (2002); a book of poetry,
My House Remembers Me (2002); and
The Culture of Cursilería: Bad Taste, Kitsch and Class in Modern Spain (2002), which focuses on middle-class culture in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spain. She is working on a book entitled
Body Sacraments, centering on Spanish and Latin-American narratives of confession, authority, and revelation.
Teresa M. Vilarós is E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University. A cultural theorist with a strong interest in psychoanalysis, post-phenomenology, and material criticism, she works mainly on contemporary and modern cultural production. She is the author of El mono del desencanto. Una crítica cultural de la transición española (1973–1993) (1998) and of Galdós: Invención de la mujer y poética de la sexualidad. Lectura parcial de “Fortunata y Jacinta” (1995). She has edited the volume Nuevas culturas metropolitanas for the journal Tropelias (2000) and her essays have appeared in scholarly journals in the US, Chile, Germany, and Spain. She is currently working on a book-length study of Catalonia from the 1960s to the present. Teresa M. Vilarós is coeditor of the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies.