Teaching the Latin American Boom

Lucille Kerr is professor of Latin American literature in the Deptartment of Spanish and Portuguese and an affiliated faculty member in Comparative Literary Studies, Jewish Studies, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Suspended Fictions: Reading Novels by Manuel Puig and Reclaiming the Author: Figures and Fictions from Spanish America. She is the director of the Web-based Latin American Literature and Film Archive and a review editor of the Latin American Literary Review.

Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Spanish at the University of Michigan. In addition to his books, Narrativas Híbridas and The Censorship Files: Latin American Writers and Franco' s Spain, he has guest edited a special issue for Symposium on "New Latin American Narrative" and co-edited Market Matters, a special issue of the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies.