Carmelo Virgillo is Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages at Arizona State University, Tempe, where he taught Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian at the undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition to serving as coordinator of Portuguese and undergraduate Spanish literature courses, he directed Arizona State University's programs in Florence and Siena, Italy. He also served as book review editor of the Latin American Digest. He is the author of many articles and reviews on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish, Latin American, and Brazilian literature, as well as of translations. The recipient of several nominations for excellence in teaching, he has been cited by the Italian Ministry of Education for his contributions to the promotion of Italian studies in the United States.

Edward H. Friedman is Professor of Spanish and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. His primary field of research is Golden Age literature. He is the author of The Unifying Concept: Approaches to the Structure of Cervantes' Comedias and The Antiheroine's Voice as well as numerous articles and reviews. He serves as editor of the Indiana Journal of Hispanic Literatures and as a book review editor of Cervantes. Formerly director of graduate studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Indiana University, he has been awarded several national grants as well as a Burlington Northern foundation award for excellence in teaching.

L. Teresa Valdivieso, Professor of Spanish at Arizona State University, Tempe, is Coordinator of the Spanish section in the department of Foreign Languages and is also Interim Director of the Center for Latin American Studies. She has served as Chair of the Arizona State University Education Abroad Committee, as visiting professor at Middlebury College, and as lecturer at the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, México. She is the author of España: Bibliografía de un teatro silenciado and Negocios y comunicaciones. At present she is President of the Asociación de la Literatura Femenina Hispánica. In 1980 she was the recipient of the Dean's Award for excellence in teaching.