Contributors
- Contributors
José María Aguilera Manzano is visiting professor in the Department of History at Florida International University, Miami, and assistant professor at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Spain. He gained his Ph.D. at the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, in 2005. He is author of the book La formación de la identidad cubana: La polémica Saco-La Sagra (2005), and several articles: “Los indios de la Isla de Cuba en el proceso de formación cultural del grupo de Domingo del Monte,” and “La entronización de la literatura en la formación de la identidad cubana,” among others.
Lillian Guerra is assistant professor of Caribbean History at Yale University and the author of Popular Expression and National Identity in Puerto Rico (1998) and The Myth of José Martí: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba (2005). Currently, she is writing a book on the use of images and image-making in the political consolidation of Fidel Castro and popular interpretations of the Cuban Revolution between 1957 and 1967. Born in the United States to Cuban exiles and raised in Kansas and Miami, she travels to Cuba frequently for research and family purposes and has taught several courses there.
Gillian McGillivray is an assistant professor of Latin American History at York University’s Glendon College in Toronto, Canada. She recently completed a book entitled Blazing Cane: Sugar Communities, Class, and Politics in Cuba, 1868–1959 (forthcoming), and is currently pursuing comparative research on sugar and power in early twentieth-century Cuba, Mexico, and Brazil.
Gustavo Pérez Firmat (http://www.gustavoperezfirmat.com) is the David Feinson Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His most recent books are Tongue Ties (2003), a study of the erotics of bilingualism, and Scar Tissue (2005), a memoir in verse and prose. His essay in this volume is part of an ongoing project on the poetry of feeling in Spain and Spanish America.
Laura Redruello is an assistant professor at Manhattan College. She received her PhD in Hispanic Literature from Vanderbilt University. Her primary research interests are Cuban fiction and essay, film studies, and popular music. Related to these topics she has published several articles, such as “Escribir en Cuba: ¿creer, mentir o callar? Una conversación con el escritor cubano Arturo Arango,” “Diferencias genéricas en el discurso fílmico cubano: el caso de Suite Habana,” “La intertextualidad como trasgresión. Nicolás Guillén en el rap cubano,” “La mujer en el espacio fílmico de Tomás Gutiérrez Alea” or “Habana Abierta: el reencuentro en el documental cubano.” She has [End Page 273] presented her investigation in several universities such as Lincoln University, Tulane University, New York University, and Yale University.
Thomas Ward is a professor of Spanish at Loyola College. His most recent book, La resistencia cultural: la nación en el ensayo de las Américas was published by Ricardo Palma University in Lima where he was recently named Corresponding Member of Instituto Ricardo Palma. In La resistencia cultural Professor Ward studies Martí’s inversion of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento’s social theory. More recently, he is engaged in research attempting to isolate sixteenth- and seventeenth-century notions of the nation as they relate to ethnicity and gender in various hemispheric cultural groups in a comparative context.
Elliott Young is associate professor of history and director of Latin American studies and ethnic studies at Lewis & Clark College. He has published extensively about U.S.-Mexico borderlands history, including his book Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border (2004), and his co-edited volume, Continental Crossroads: Remapping US-Mexico Borderlands History (2004). He is currently working on a transnational history of Chinese cross-border migrations in greater North America (Cuba, Mexico, the United States, and Canada) in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. [End Page 274]
