146 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Ivette L6pez Jimenez teaches at the University of Puerto Rico, Bayam6n.
 She has published on Latin American and Puerto Rican writers such as
 Delmira Agustini, Claribel Alegria, Rosario Ferr6, Magali Garcia Ramis,
 Francisco Matos Paoli, and Ana Lydia Vega. Her book Julia de Burgos:
 la canci6n y el silencio received a first prize from the PEN Club.

 Elsa Luciano Feal is a Ph.D. candidate in Caribbean Literature at the
 University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. Her dissertation examines the
 work of Dionne Brand, Jamaica Kincaid, and Pauline Melville. She
 teaches English at the University of Puerto Rico, Arecibo.

Victoria Nufiez teaches at Brooklyn College in the School of Education.
 Currently she is writing about Puerto Rican and Dominican migrants
 and the ways in which they capture the memory of their migrations.
 She is the co-director of a web-based project, "Puerto Rican Writers
 and Migration: Folklore, Autobiography and History."

Maribel Ortiz Marquez teaches in the Spanish Department in the College of
 General Studies at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. She
 currently co-directs "Writing the City," a project sponsored by the
 National Endowment for the Humanities. Her research interests are the
 Puerto Rican diaspora, urban inscriptions, and the city.

Carmen Haydee Rivera teaches in the Department of English of the College
 of Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. Her areas of
 interest are contemporary US Latino/a literature, multiethnic literatures
 of the U.S., and literature by and about women. She is co-editor for a
 forthcoming collection of critical essays, Writing Of(f) the Hyphen: New
 Critical Perspectives on the Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora.

Maria Soledad Rodriguez teaches in the Department of English of the College
 of Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. Her poems
 have been published in various Caribbean journals. Her academic
 interests include Caribbean and children's narrative and folktales.

Josefa Santiago Caraballo teaches history and humanities at the University
 of Puerto Rico, Bayam6n. She is the director of the editorial board for
 the academic journal Milenio. She has presented her work on militarism
 in Puerto Rico in the twentieth century in conferences, panels and
 congresses in the U.S., the Caribbean and Mexico.

Martiza Stanchich teaches in the Department of English of the College of
 Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. Her interests
 include 19th and 20th century U.S. and Caribbean literatures, diasporic
 Puerto Rican literature, Faulkner and postcolonialism. She has also
 worked as a journalist in New York, Washington, D.C., and San Juan.