FRANCINE MASIELLO is a writer and critic who has taught at the University of California at Berkeley where she holds the Ancker Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities (Emerita). With a long career as a Latin Americanist, she published on topics ranging from nineteenth-century literature to avant-garde movements of the 1920s. In recent years, she has turned to the representation of the senses under neoliberal order and now writes about the Global South. She has lived in New York, Italy, and Argentina, and has published fiction in English and Spanish. "The Tomb of the Divers" is her first novel.
