Perla Abrego. (Mexico) MA in Letras Españolas, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, (2001) and MA in Colombian Literature, Universidad de Antioquia, (2004). perla.f.abrego@vanderbilt.edu

Sandra Alvarado Bordas (Santo Domingo, República Dominicana) B.A in Humanities and Philosophy (Magna cum laude) Pedro Francisco Bonó Philosophic Institute, INTEC (Summer 2005) Santo Domingo, República Dominicana. Minor in Theater and Performance at the National School of Dramatic Arts (Summer 2006) Santo Domingo, República Dominicana. Academic interests: Focus on “self-destructive” figuration of the feminine subject in Latin America women writers like Clarice Lispector and Alejandra Pizarnik. Other interests: Representations of the bodies in contemporary Latin America Theater (dramatist such as Enrique Buenaventura) and the influence of Eugenio Barba´s theatre anthropology in Latin America groups such as Yuyachkani. Publications: “La dramaturgia de Carlos Acevedo Gautier” in Anuario Pedagógico 11 (2007): 97-113. (Santo Domingo) and http://www.cielonaranja.com/acevedosandra.htm

E-mail sandra.p.alvarado@vanderbilt.edu

Alana Alvarez. (Caracas, Venezuela) Licenciada en Letras (Magna cum laude), Universidad Central de Venezuela (2009). Interests: Contemporary Spanish Poetry , Spanish lyricism (Coplas, y Jarchas), Flamencología, Spanish realist novel and it´s connection to "el folletín" as a melodramatic production. alana.alvarez@vanderbilt.edu

Heather Bishop McRae.(USA). BA in Romance of Languages, University of Georgia, Athens, GA (2003). MA in Romance Languages, University of Georgia, Athens, GA (2005). E-mail: heather.bishop@vanderbilt.edu

Laura C. Brown: (North Carolina): BA Hispanic Studies, East Carolina University (2004). MA in Spanish, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2007), MA thesis: “Mirrors, Masks, and the ‘Self’ Deferred: A Psychoexistential Reading of Juan Francisco Manzano and Luiz Gama.”  Interests: Contemporary Latin American narrative, autobiography/self-writing and the relationship between language and memory, Afro-Latino Literature, Comparative Inter-American Studies.  Awards: FIPSE-CAPSE grant, Florianópolis, Brazil (2006).  Email: laura.c.brown@vanderbilt.edu

Denise Callejas.  (Kissimmee, Florida)  MA in Spanish, Florida State University. denise.n.callejas@vanderbilt.edu

Camila Delaney (São Paulo, Brazil). BA in Anthropology, University of California - Riverside (2002), Master's in Social Work, Florida State University (2008). Interests: Brazilian and North American literature, comparative literature. camila.delaney@vanderbilt.edu

G. Cory Duclos. (Pleasant Grove, Utah). BA in Spanish, Weber State University (2006). MA, The University of Nevada, Reno (2008). Interests: Transatlantic studies during the early modern and colonial period as well as Chilean culture and literature. Recent presentations: “A Woman’s Place is in the Subtext': A Socio-Historical Approach to the Role of Women in the Short Stories of Jorge Edwards.” 62^nd RMMLA Convention (Fall 2008). E-mail g.cory.duclos@vanderbilt.edu

Anna-Lisa Halling (Ramona, CA) BA in Spanish, minor in Portuguese, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT (2005).  MA in Spanish Literature, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT (2007).  Master’s thesis: An Edition of the Villancicos of Sor Violante do Céu.  Interests:  Spanish Golden Age Theatre, Early Modern Women Writers, Comparative Iberian Studies. Publications:  Book review of Approaches to Teaching the Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz for the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies (forthcoming).  “A Critique of War: José Ortega y Gasset’s La deshumanización del arte and Fernando Arrabal’s Pic-Nic.”  La Marca Hispánica 17.  Brigham Young University (2006): 63-71.  “The Modern Golden Age of Theater.”  “El caballero de Olmedo” Play Guide.  Brigham Young University (2005): 22-24.  “Matrimony, Convent or Death: The Life of a Lady.”  “El muerto disimulado” Play Guide.  Brigham Young University (2004): 41-43. Presentations: “Convent Writing and Theatre: A Comparison of Sor Juana and Sor Violante,” presented at the 2008 conference of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater, El Paso, TX.  and  “Recovering Sor Violante do Céu’s Villancicos and Uncovering their Theatricality,” presented at the 2006 conference of the Asociación de Escritoras de España y las Américas, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

E-mail: anna-lisa.haling@vanderbilt.edu

Pablo Martinez. (Spain) BA in English, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid,  España (2001), MA in Hispanic Literatures, West Virgina University, Morgantown, WV, USA (2003). Research interests: Trans-poetic protocols of Modernism and Vanguardism. Currently I am researching on Las épicas de construcción literaria en procesos de violencia, narcotráficoy terrorismo en Latinoamérica. Awards: Leonardo da Vinci European Union Programme (Dublin, 2001, Prague, 2004), AIESEC Educational Branch Award (University of Gdansk, Poland, 2004-2005). E-amil: pablo.martinez@vanderbilt.edu

 Clara Mengolini.(Argentina, Bariloche)  Licenciada y profesora en Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires (2003). MA in Peninsular and Latinamerican literature, University of South Carolina (2010). Interests: Argentinean Fantasy literature and Argentinean Theatre. clara.mengolini@vanderbilt.edu

Jason Thomas Parker. (USA) BA in Spanish/ Russian, Vanderbilt University, (2006). E-mail: Jason.t.parker@vanderbilt.edu

Santiago Manuel Quintero Ayarza.Graduado en Literatura de la Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. En Septiembre de 2009.Mis intereses son el Modernismo y Narrativa latinoamericana contemporánea. santiago.m.quintero@vanderbilt.edu

Rosie Marie Seagraves. (Milford, Delaware) BA English, Foreign Languages and Literatures. (Spanish), University of Delaware. rosie.m.seagraves@vanderbil.t.edu

Gretchen Susan Selcke. (Edina, Minnestota). BA in History and Spanish, Bowdoin College  (Suma Cum Laude) (Phi Beta Kappa) (2000). Honors Theses: “El amor cortés en La Celestina: convenciones literarias en un mundo en transición” (Bowdoin College 2000); “Río de la Plata in Transition, 1776-1820: Criollo Conflict in Buenos Aires and Montevideo” (Bowdoin College, 2000). Academic Interests: Contemporary Spanish Caribbean narrative, U.S. Latino literature, Afro-hispanic literature, Contemporary Spanish American narrative, comparative studies in narrative, politics of identity and race, and literary theory. Publications: “‘Consecrated Places:’ Interview with Afro-Dominican Painter Antonio Carreño.” Afro-Hispanic Review 24.2 (Fall 2005):  181-90. El amor cortés en La Celestina: las convenciones literarias en mundo en transición (Published by Bowdoin College, 2000). Awards, Honors and Fellowships: E. Inman Fox Graduate Teaching Award (May 2008), Center for the Americas Graduate Scholar Summer Fellowship (Summer 2006), Center for the Americas Graduate Fellow (2006-2007), Graduate Select Scholar in Arts and Science (2004), Summa Cum Laude (History and Spanish) (2000), Philip C. Bradley Spanish Prize (Bowdoin) (2000), Class of 1868 Prize for excellence in oration (2000), Phi Beta Kappa (1999), Commencement Speaker (2000), Sarah and James Bowdoin Book Scholar (1996-2000). Assistant Editor of the Afro-Hispanic Review (2005-2006), member of the Afro-Hispanic Review Editorial Board (2005-present), research assistant for Professor William Luis. gretchen.s.selcke@vanderbilt.edu

Camille Jordan Sutton. (Toronto, Canada). MA in Hispanic Studies, University on British Columbia.

camille.j.sutton@vanderbilt.edu

Alonso Varo Varo. (Cadiz, Spain) MA of Arts in Spanish, Villanova University. alonso.varo.varo@vanderbilt.edu

Steven Wenz. (BrookPark, OH). BA in Spanish and English, Case Western Reserve University (2007). Interests: translation, literary theory, Romance linguistics. steven.b.wenz@vanderbilt.edu

Ty Hill West. (California) BA Comparative Literature, University of California Berkeley. ty.h.west@vanderbilt.edu

 Karin Whitehouse. (Buenos Aires, Argentina) MA in Hispanic American Literatures in Cultures, University of Minnesota.  karin.d.whitehouse@vanderbilt.edu