Contributors
- Contributors
Luis P. Aguilar-Moreno is a doctoral candidate in the Modern Languages and Literature Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo, concentrating on Latin American Literature. His dissertation work deals with issues of translation to and from Spanish, English, and Spanglish.
May Elisabeth Bletz earned her B.A. in Latin American Studies at the State University of Leiden, the Netherlands, and an M.A. in Spanish at Brandeis University. She is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University. Her Ph.D. dissertation is titled “Narratives of Immigration and Acculturation in Brazilian and Argentine Fiction, 1880–1930.”
José F. Buscaglia-Salgado is assistant professor in the departments of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he is also Director of Cuban and Caribbean Programs. His book Impossible Nations: Body and Ideal in the Mulatto World of the Caribbean is forthcoming (University of Minnesota Press).
Victor Fowler-Calzada is a Cuban poet and critic affiliated with the Biblioteca Nacional José Martí in Havana. His critical work focuses on modern Cuban culture. He has organized and presented papers at numerous conferences, including “Cincuenta años de Orígenes” (MINCULT, Havana, 1994) and “Vórtice de Ciclón” (UNEAC, Havana, 1996). His published works include many anthologized poems, several books of poetry, numerous essays, and four books of critical writings and scholarship: La maldición: una historia del placer como conquista (1998), Rupturas y homenajes (1999), Diccionario de citas de José Lezama Lima, co-authored with Carmen Berenguer (1999), and most recently Historias del cuerpo (2000). He lives in Havana.
Ana García Chichester was born in Cuba. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and is currently an associate professor of Spanish at Mary Washington College. She does research on the Latin American avant-garde and has published articles on Virgilio Piñera, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Miguel Barnet, and Nancy Morejón.
Stephen Gingerich is a visiting assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Kansas. He has taught Spanish, German, English, and Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo and elsewhere, and he has worked as a writer and editor for several paper and electronic publications. His work has appeared in The New Centennial Review, L’Esprit créateur, and MLN, and he contributed an essay on representation in art and literature to rostro@representación.com (San Sebastian: Diputación Foral de Guipuzkoa, 1998).
Salah D. Hassan is the associate editor of CR and an assistant professor in the Department of English at Michigan State University. His areas of research include post–World War II literary journals, narratives of decolonization, and histories of anticolonial intellectual movements. He is currently working on a collection of essays on Palestine and critical theory.
Jacqueline E. Loss is an assistant professor of Latin American Literature at the University of Connecticut. She is co-editing an anthology of contemporary [End Page 310] cuban fiction and preparing a manuscript that reevaluates cosmopolitanisms in Spanish American literature. Her current work on the commodification of the margins involves an investigation of Reinaldo Arenas and Julian Schnabel’s film Before Night Falls. She also wrote with Andrew Hurley an afterword to Arenas’s The Color of Summer.
William Luis is a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Department of English at Vanderbilt University. He was born and raised in New York City and has written extensively on Latin American, Caribbean, Afro-Hispanic, and Latino U.S. literatures. Luis has authored many books, including Literary Bondage: Slavery in Cuban Narrative (1990), Dance Between Two Cultures: Latino Caribbean Literature Written in the United States (1997), and Culture and Customs of Cuba (2000). His Lunes de Revolución: Literatura y cultura en los primeros años de la Revolución Cubana is scheduled to be published by Verbum (Madrid).
Rafael Rojas is a Cuban historian and writer. He completed a Ph.D. in History at El Colegio de México. He was the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in 1996. Since 1997 he has been a professor and researcher at the CIDE...
