
She currently chairs the Foreign Language Department at Princeton Day School in Princeton, New Jersey. She has studied at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and at the Miguel de Cervantes Institute in Madrid. Denise Guagliardo Bencivengo has completed her doctoral education at the University of Pennsylvania. She has presented papers and published articles on the work of Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda and other women writers of that period. Her major field of studies is nineteenth century literature. Mirta Barrea-Marlys is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Rutgers University in Camden.

She is currently the Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Mississippi Foreign Language Association. She has published articles about Spanish linguistics, foreign language teaching methologoy, transformational grammar, and Latin American feminist literature. Arrington is Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Mississippi. in Spanish from the University of Kentucky, he has written primarily in the field of twentieth-century Spanish American prose fiction. Arrington, Jr., is an Associate Professor of modern languages at the University of Mississippi, where he has taught since 1982.

He has published numerous articles on the work of Elena Garro. He has contributed articles and book reviews on Spanish and Mexican literature to Hispanic Journal, Critica Hispdnica, Revista de Estudios Hispdnicos, and other publications. Anderson, Ph.D., is a Professor of Spanish at California State University, Stanislaus. He has published extensively about the latest generation of Mexican writers, in particular those living in the United States. He is a specialist on Mexican literature of the twentieth century, with the focus on the present era. Ricardo Aguilar, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Texas, El Paso and director of the Chicano Studies Program.

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