Kathleen Ross, Associate Professor of Spanish at New York University, is the author of The Baroque Narrative of Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora (1994), co-editor of Scents of Wood and Silence: Short Stories by Latin American Women Writers(1991), and the translator of works by Cesar Vallejo, Roque Dalton, Julieta Campos and others. Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria is Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literatures at Yale University
