Contributors

Contributors/Abstracts I CONTRIBUTORS Clementina R. Adams was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, and she is a Professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages at Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina. She received her B.A. in Spanish and Literature from Atlantic University in Colombia. She also received an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Florida State University. Her main areas of research interest are contemporary Hispanic literature andAfro-Hispanic literature and culture. Her publications include three books: Common Threads: Afro-Hispanic Women's Literature, 1998; in co-authorship, Referencias Cruzadas: Entrevistas a Enrique Jarumillo Levi, 1999; and Rebeldia, denuncia y justicia social: Voces ene'rgicas de autorus hispanoamericanas y espaiiolas, 2003. In addition, she has a good number of chapters in books as well as articles published in well-known refereed journals or as part of selected conference proceedings. Dr. Adams has focused part of her research in the study of Hispanic authors whose outstanding works are not known out of their places of origin or in the United States. Maria de Jesus Gonzdlez is an assistant professor of art history at the University of Central Florida, where she teaches general courses in the history of art, Mesoamerican art, and 20th century Latin American art. She has carried out research in Mexico and the Caribbean. Her publications include articles on the Mexican painter Maria Izquierdo (1906-1955) and Chicana artists Santa Barraza and Amalia Mesa-Bains. She is currently conducting research on two books: Latin American Women Painters of Florida and Women Collectors and Patrons of Monterrey. She received his M.A. from Bryn Mawr College and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. Kenneth J. Mijeski is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at East Tennessee State University. Along with Scott H. Beck, he has been engaged in research on the Ecuadorian indigenous movement forthe past ten years. He and Beck have coauthored numerous papers and journal articles on the politics of the Pachakutik political movement. He has previously conducted research in Costa Rica and Nicaragua and was awarded a Fulbright SummerStudy Grant in 1993.His previous publications The Latin Americanist Winter/Spring2004 include Politics and Public Policy in Latin America (with Steven W. Hughes) and The Nicaraguan Constitution of 1987. Scott H. Beck is Professor of Sociology at East Tennessee State University. He has conducted research in Ecuador over the past ten years on the indigenous movement and its role in civil society and politics. He held a Fulbright Research Grant and universitysponsored grants to conduct field research in Ecuador. He has jointly published several articles with Kenneth J. Mijeski on the Ecuadorian indigenous movement, in The Latin American Research Review, Ecuadorian StudiedEstudios Ecuatorianos, and the Indian Journal o f Politics. Leah Fonder-Solano is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her research interests include issues of exile and identity in contemporary Latin American letters and the pedagogy of readingAiterature. Recent publications include two co-authored studies: Burnett, Joanne and Leah Fonder. “Crossing the Boundaries Between Literature and Pedagogy: Perspectiveson a Foreign Language Reading Course.” V. Scott & H. Tucker (Eds.), SLA and the Literature Classroom: Fostering Dialogues. and “Teaching Literaturemeading: A Dialogue on Professional Growth” Foreign Language Annals; a journal article on Cristina Peri Rossi’s short fiction, “Inversih, ironia y la toma de conciencia en tres cuentos psicoanaliticos de Cristina Pen Rossi” SECOLAS 34 (2002); two journal articles on Pen Rossi’s most critically acclaimed novel, “Intersections Between Feminism, Film and Text: La nave de 10s locos by Cristina Peri Rossi” Letrus Femeninas (December 2003) and “Erotismo, actuacion y la construction de identidad: La nave de 10s locos de Cristina Peri Rossi.” Ciberletras 10 (2003). ...