The Author: Eric W. Pennington is Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Seton Hall University, New Jersey. He received his Ph.D. in Romance languages and literatures from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio and was awarded two National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowships for study at Cornell University, New York, and Duke University, North Carolina. In addition to numerous articles in professional journals on Spanish peninsular and Latin American literature, he is the author of Imperial Collusion in Hispanic Texts, founder of the Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, and initiator of the Cincinnati Romance Review.