Sharon Wilson Foerster has taught Spanish and foreign language methodology courses for over forty years. She continues to present papers and conduct workshops in the United States, and abroad, most recently in Turkey, Italy, Spain and Cuba. She received her Ph.D. in Intercultural Communications from the University of Texas in 1981. Prior to joining the Spanish department at the University of Texas, she was the Director of the Center for Cross-Cultural Study in Seville, Spain where her passion for study abroad began. She continues her involvement in study abroad through her work as co-founder and Academic Advisor for Academic Programs International. After retiring from University of Texas at Austin in 2001 where she was Coordinator of Lower Division Courses, she taught for fi ve years in the Summer Language School at Middlebury College in Vermont. She is the lead author of eight textbooks published by McGraw-Hill: Punto y aparte: Spanish in Review, Moving Toward Fluency (2000, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2014), Lecturas literarias: Moving Toward Linguistic and Cultural Fluency Through Literature (2007), Metas comunicativas para maestros (1999), Metas comunicativas para negocios (1998), Supplementary Materials to accompany Puntos de partida, (1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2011) In viaggio: Moving Toward Fluency in Italian (2003), Pause café: Moving Toward Fluency in French (2009), and Pasaporte: Spanish for Advanced Beginners (2009).

Anne Lambright is Associate Professor of Language and Culture Studies in the Hispanic Studies Program at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She earned her Ph.D. in Latin American literature from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching focus on contemporary Latin American literature, Andean literature and culture, indigenismo, and Latin American women’s writing, topics on which she has published several articles and books. She is the author of Creating the Hybrid Intellectual: Subject, Space and the Feminine in the Narrative of José Arguedas (2007), and co-editor of Unfolding the City: Women Write the City in Latin America (2007), with Elisabeth Guerrero. She is currently fi nishing a book on cultural production in post-confl ict Peru.