About the Authors

David Kohut (BA, State University of New York at Binghamton; MA, anthropology, State University of New York at Binghamton; MLS, State University of New York at Albany) is associate librarian at Saint Xavier University, Chicago. He has published articles in libraryscience journals and contributed to reference works. He is coauthor of Women Authors of Modern Hispanic South America: A Bibliography of Literary Criticism and Interpretation, published by Scarecrow Press in 1989. He is a member of Amnesty International.

Olga Vilella (AB, Vassar College; MSJ, Columbia University; PhD, University of Chicago) is associate professor in the Department of English and Foreign Languages, Saint Xavier University, Chicago, specializing in Latin American literatures of the 19th and 20th centuries. Dr. Vilella also directs the Latino/Latin American Studies Program at Saint Xavier University. Her research interests include Latin American modernismo and literary responses to dictatorship in 20th-century Latin America. She is a member of Amnesty International.