LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. She also teaches in the Department of English there. Alison J. Van Nyhuis: received her B.A. in Humanities from Northwestern College, and is completing her M.A. in English at the University of Florida. Her research interests include twentieth-century cultural studies and postcolonial theory. Edith Vazquez: is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, writing a dissertation entitled "Latins Materialist Poetics." She is currently Visiting Professor in the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies at California State University, Long Beach. Don E. Walicek: is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. His interests include sociolinguistics, pidgin and creole languages, Caribbean history, and language ideology and attitudes.