List of Contributors Lynette Cintr6n: is a M.A. literature student in the English Department at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. She also participates in the performance poetry ensemble Tonguas and will soon publish some of her short stories in the group's journal. Raphael Dalleo: has studied Caribbean literature at Amherst College and the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. He is currently a doctoral candidate at State University of New York, Stony Brook. Elizabeth Edla Davis: is a Ph.D. candidate in the English department at New York University. She is currently working on a dissertation entitled "Acting White: The Construction and Performance of Whiteness in Nineteenth-Century Sentimental Fiction." Kim Dismont Robinson: is a Ph.D. candidate at the English Department of the University of Miami. Her dissertation explores the relationship between Caribbean literature, trauma, and history. She has also performed internationally and published her creative writing. Aaron Eastley: is a graduate student in literature at the University of California, San Diego, working on the appropriation of Greek