Contributors
- Contributors
Marcus Embry is associate professor of English at the University of Northern Colorado, where he teaches Latino literature and literature of the Americas. He has contributed to the volumes of essays The Oxford Comparative History of Latin American Literary Cultures and El mito de lo umbilical: Los latinos en América del Norte and has published in the journals New Centennial Review, Temas y variaciones de literatura, Dispositio/n, Discourse, Confluencia, and Women and Performance. He coedited with Alberto Moreiras a double issue of Dispositio/n titled The Cultural Practice of Latin Americanism. He is finishing a manuscript, “The Shadow of Latinidad.”
Michael Ennis is a doctoral candidate in the Program in Literature at Duke University. His research interests include Mesoamerican languages and literatures and the politics of cultural production in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century New Spain.
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera is professor at the Universidad Javeriana’s Instituto Pensar in Bogotá. He coauthored Pensar (en) los intersticios: Teoría y práctica de la crítica postcolonial (1999) and coedited La otra guerra: El derecho como continuación del conflicto y lenguaje de la paz (1999), which won first prize at the 2000 International Book Fair in Bogotá. He contributed to La reestructuración de las ciencias sociales en América Latina (reviewed in this issue). Former director of the Instituto Pensar, Guardiola-Rivera is currently doing research on the discursive construction of political subjects in the “Plan Colombia” and the relationship between ideology, global capitalism, and globalcentrism, and the reshaping of the geopolitical and cultural map of the Andean region.
Edward J. McCaughan, associate professor of sociology at Loyola University New Orleans, is the author of Reinventing Revolution: The Renovation of Left Discourse in Cuba and Mexico (1997). [End Page 195]
Pilar Melgarejo is a graduate student at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. She is the author of “El pensar histórico como genealogía: Acto interpretativo y construcción de subjetividad,” published in the journal Fronteras de la historia (Bogotá, 2000). Her article “Academia, lengua y nación: Para una genealogía del campo académico en Colombia” appeared in Anuario de estudios latinoamericanos, no. 34 (2001), published by the Centro Coordinador y Difusor de Estudios Latinoamericanos of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
B. V. Olguín has taught at Cornell University and the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently assistant professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He has published articles on Chicano and Latin American studies in Frontiers, Cultural Critique, and American Literary History. His book La Pinta: History, Culture, and Ideology in Chicana and Chicano Prisoner Discourses is forthcoming from the University of Texas Press. He is writing a second book on Mexican American war narratives.
Javier Sanjinés C. is assistant professor of Latin American and Andean literatures and cultures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Author of Literatura contemporánea y grotesco social en Bolivia (1992), Sanjinés is finishing a book on aesthetic politics in modern Bolivia.
Freya Schiwy is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University. Her research interests include subaltern studies, post-Occidental and feminist theories, twentieth-century cultural production, and social and intellectual movements in Latin America. She is currently completing her dissertation, “Reframing Knowledge: Indigenous Video, Gendered Imaginaries, and Colonial Legacies.”
Catherine E. Walsh is director of the Doctoral Program in Latin American Cultural Studies, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, Ecuador. [End Page 196]
