Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS David Bost is the Carey Shepard Crantford Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Furman University where he teaches Spanish and also chairs the English Department. His current research interests include non-fiction narrative and cultural expressions of social justice and memory, such as memorials and museums. He has published widely on Latin American literature, culture and history in journals, literary histories and translations. His most notable work has appeared in The Cambridge History of Latin American Literature and The DeSoto Chronicles. Claudia Garcı́a es Profesora Asociada de Español en la Universidad de Nebraska en Omaha. Sus intereses de investigación académica incluyen la literatura guatemalteca y centroamericana de los siglos XX y XXI, las literaturas indı́genas de expresión en español, la intersección de los procesos migratorios con los socio-culturales, las transformaciones del mercado literario en el contexto de la globalización y el impacto del colapso ecológico en la escritura contemporánea. Ha publicado artı́culos sobre estos temas en Istmo, Letras femeninas, A contracorriente, Hispania, L’érudit francoespagnol , entre otras revistas especializadas. Igualmente, ha colaborado con capı́tulos para volúmenes editados, como Viajeras entre dos mundos. Michael J. Pisani is Professor of International Business at Central Michigan University (Mt. Pleasant, MI). Dr. Pisani’s research interests include the intersection of international business and development, informality, crossborder business and economic phenomena, sustainability, entrepreneurship , microfinance, and microenterprise development primarily within Central America, the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and the Caribbean. Professor Pisani is co-author of the monograph, The Informal and Underground Economy of the South Texas Border (University of Texas Press, 2012). Monica Simal was born and raised in Cuba. She started a BA at the University of Havana and completed it at Montclair State University where she also earned a MA in Spanish. She received her PhD in Spanish language and literatures from Boston University in 2011. For the last four years she has taught as an Assistant Professor at Providence College. Her current research focuses on the group of writers of the so-called Mariel generation, which includes Reinaldo Arenas, Carlos Victoria and Guillermo Rosales. Her areas of expertise include Cuban literature, Latin American and Caribbean Studies. C  2015 Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 1 ...