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Jill S. Kuhnheim is a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Kansas. Her research has centered on contemporary Latin American literatures and cultures, particularly the genre of poetry. She is the author of two books on Spanish American poetry, Spanish American Poetry at the End of the Twentieth Century: Textual Disruptions (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004), and Gender, Politics, and Poetry in Twentieth Century Argentina (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996). She is also coeditor (with Danny J. Anderson) of a collection of essays on pedagogy and cultural studies, Cultural Studies in the Curriculum: Teaching Latin America (New York: MLA, 2003). Her articles have appeared in journals such as Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana, Hispanic Review, Letras femeninas, Hispanic Poetry Review, Revista Iberoamericana , Latin American Theatre Review, Hispamérica, and Modern Fiction Studies. She has served as codirector of a National Endowment for the Humanities seminar for college professors on “Critical Approaches to Hispanic Poetry,” is an editor for the poetry of the Río de la Plata for the Library of Congress’s Handbook of Latin American Studies, and has recently published entries on Argentine and Chilean poetry in the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. About the Author ...