Sharon Wilson Foerster retired from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001, where she had been the Coordinator of Lower Division Courses in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, directing the first- and second-year Spanish language program and training graduate assistant instructors. She continues to teach Spanish in the Summer Language School at Middlebury College in Vermont. She received her Ph.D. in Intercultural Communications from the University of Texas in 1981. Before joining the faculty at the University of Texas, she was Director of the Center for Cross-Cultural Study in Seville, Spain for four years. She continues her involvement in study abroad through her work as Director of the Spanish Teaching Institute and as Academic Advisor for Academic Programs International. She is the coauthor of the following McGraw-Hill titles: Punto y aparte: Spanish in Review, Moving Toward Fluency, Third Edition (2007); Lecturas literarias: Moving Toward Linguistic and Cultural Fluency Through Literature (2007); Supplementary Materials to accompany Puntos de partida, Sixth Edition (2004); Metas communicativas para maestros (1999); and Metas comunicativas para negocios (1998).

Anne Lambright is an Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literature 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. Other books include Creating the Hybrid Intellectual: Subject, Space, and the Feminine in the Narrative of José María Arguedas (Bucknell University Press, 2007) and Unfolding the City: Women Write the City in Latin America (University of Minnesota Press, 2006), co-edited with Elisabeth Guerrero.