Contributors
- Contributors
David Avalos, one of a group of artists that represented the U.S. at the 1992 Istanbul Bienali, is acclaimed for his provocative collaborations in the public realm. During the 1980s and 1990s, Avalos collaborated on a number of highly publicized public art projects in San Diego County that raised questions about the treatment of hourly wage-earners and migrant workers. In 1988, along with artists Elizabeth Sisco and Louis Hock, he created a public transit poster focusing on the exploitation of undocumented Mexican and Central American workers in the San Diego tourist industry. The posters, which read "Welcome to Amer-ica's Finest Tourist Plantation," were mounted on 100 San Diego Transit buses during the month of the city's first Super Bowl. Currently, one of these posters is included in a new traveling exhibit called "At Work: The Art of California Labor," which opened at the California Historical Society in San Francisco on Labor Day, September 1, 2003, and at the San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery on September 2. The exhibit will travel throughout California until 2007.
Humberto Beck recently completed studies on international relations at El Colegio de México. He is a collaborative researcher with Eulalio Ferrer Rodríguez on subjects regarding information, literature and communication. He has also been on the editorial board of Ixtus, Espíritu y Cultura for the past four and a half years. He has published widely on many topics some of his articles include: "Bretón en México: una apostilla," "La naturaleza como industria," "Partenia: la redención en red" in Letras Libres and "Los límites del desarrollo: entrevista con Wolfgang Sachs," and "Jacques Ellul y la subversión del cristianismo" in Ixtus, Espírtu y Cultura. He also worked as Iván Illich's research assistant at the University of California, Berkley.
Rebecca E. Biron is Associate Professor of Spanish and Director of Latin American Studies Degree Programs at the University of [End Page 277] Miami. She teaches and writes on 20th century Latin American narrative, with particular focus on gender, modernism, and urban studies. She has published essays in journals such as Feminist Studies, Latin American Literary Review, Revista de estudios hispánicos, and Curare, in addition to various collections. She wrote Murder and Masculinity: Violent Fictions of 20th century Latin America (Vanderbilt University Press, 2000). Her current book projects include a study of Elena Garro's role in Mexican literary history and an analysis of the relationship between modernization and globalization as essential terms in Mexican cultural criticism.
Juan Bruce-Novoa is Professor of Latin American and U.S. Latino literatures in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California Irvine, where he also teaches film in the Visual Studies Department. He is a specialist in US Latino literature as well as Mexican mid-century cultural production and has published extensively on Juan García Ponce and the artists of la Ruptura. He is also co-founder of the U.C. Mexicanists group and has been a professor at Yale, Trinity and Colorado Universities and been an invited visiting professor at Harvard, Mainz, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Pennsylvania, and Berlin. He has won the Premio Plural for essays and the Premio José Fuentes Mares for his short story collection Manuscrito de origen. He has also published other works of fiction including the novel Only the Good Times as well as poetry. He is currently working on The Body in the Box: Resurrecting Usonian Cultural Production.
Maricruz Castro Ricalde has taught at the ITSEM, Toluca campus since 1987. She has received numerous awards as an essayist, including the 1997 Medal for Artistic Merit in Yucatán, Mexico. Some of her book titles are: El discurso de los mundos posibles [The Discourse of Posible Worlds] (Instituto de Cultura de Yucatán, 1993), Razón y placer: Alfonso Reyes (Reason and Pleasure: Alfonso Reyes) (Centro Toluqueño de Escritores, 1995); Ficción, narración y polifonía. El universo narrativo de Sergio Pitol (Fiction, Narration and Poliphony: The Narrative Universe of Sergio Pitol) (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, 2000), and Escrituras en contraste: femenino/ masculino en la literatura...
