Armando Aragón Arias teaches English and French at Colegio Felisa Su rez in Alpujarra (Tolima) Colombia, where he also paints and draws, and works on a city project on Ecology and Environmentalism. He has exhibited in several Colombian cities, including Bucaramanga (1993) where he won a special award for his paintings. Some of his drawings (ink) and paintings (oil on canvas, oil on linen) have been published in several Colombian and French journals. Since he earned his degree in Fine Arts at Universidad del Tolima, (Ibagu‚), he has committed most of his time to teaching, painting, and "saving the environment."
Shelley Baum-Brunner, Director of Writing Programs and Assistant Professor of Writing at Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science has a doctorate in Reading, Writing and Literacy from the University of Pennsylvania. Publications include "The Making of Hindsight: Response, Revision and Teacher Research" and "Co-constructing Stories: Shared Authority in the Making of Meaning."
Sue Bennett teaches composition and literature for the Humanities Department at New Mexico Junior College in Hobbs, New Mexico. She received her B.A. in English from Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Texas Tech University.
Renae Bredin is currently Acting Director of Women's Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. She recently completed her Ph.D. in English at the University of Arizona.
Victoria Carlson, a writer who lives in Saint Louis, MO, has had work appeared in Iowa Woman and The Cleveland Plain day Magazine. In 1993 she interviewed Julia Alvarez for a profile that appeared in a secondary school writing textbook published by Glencoe, a division of Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. She holds a master's degree in literary non-fiction from the university of Iowa.
Vincent Casaregola is Writing Program Director and Assistant Professor of English at Saint Louis University, where he teaches courses in rhetorical theory, composition pedagogy, and literary non-fiction. His scholarly and literary works have been included in publications such as New Letters, VIA, Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, and Readerly/Writerly Texts. He has an essay forthcoming in The North American Review.
Rocky Colavito is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, LA. He teaches courses in rhetorical theory, composition theory and practice, and various levels of writing.
Neil Kleinman is the author of a book on German propaganda, as well as articles on technology, drama, law, design, and architecture. He has been a faculty member at the University of Illinois and The City University of New York. A former academic vice president and dean, he is now on the faculty at the University of Baltimore, where he is professor of English and Communications Design; director of the Institute for Language, Technology, and Publications Design; co-director of the School of Communications Design; and interim dean of the Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts. He teaches in a program that links writing, design, and the new digital technology. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Lina Llerena teaches beginning and intermediate Spanish at California State University, Long Beach, where she is an M.A. candidate in Spanish. She is currently working on the translation of Matilde Pons' book, S¢lo para intelectuales, and on her thesis on the poetry of South American poets Alejandra Pizarnik, Olga Orozco, Amanda Berenguer, and Idea Vilari¤o.
Eugenia Muñoz is Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. Among her most recent publications, "El jard¡n de las Weisman: Rebeli¢n par¢dica del jard¡n bibl¡co" has appeared in Jorge Eliecer Pardo: Obra Literaria (1978-1986) (Bogot /Ibagu‚, Colombia: Pijao Editores, 1994. 305-313 ). She has several forthcoming essays on Colombian and other Latin American writers, such as Fanny Buitrago, Jorge Eliecer Pardo, Isabel Allende, and Tom s L¢pez Ram¡rez among them, "The Unconscious Struggle in Irene: Octavio Sarria's Choice Between Life and Death," which will appear in the 1995 Spring/Summer issue of Readerly/Writerly Texts and in the anthology of critical theory and literary criticism essays, Textos y Contextos: Ensayos Cr¡ticos Latinoamericanos y Americanos (New York, NY and Portales, NM: Research University Press; Bogot /Ibagu‚, Colombia: Pijao Editores, 1995; 250 pages). Judy Ortiz lives in Santa Fe, NM, and is a self-taught artist who has been painting for thirteen years. Inspired by the flamboyant Santa Fe artist Tommy Maccione, she has captured scenes from Northern New Mexico ranging from the realistic to the impressionistic. Her palette knife deftly communicates the subtle colors and textures of the perfectly lit Southwest. she has had numerous national exhibits, and some of her work is displayed at La Fonda Hotel in Santa Fe and in her Ortiz Gallery (830 Canyon Rd, Santa Fe, NM 87501).
Ollie O. Oviedo is Associate Professor of English at ENMU. His publications have appeared in The Seventeenth LACUS Forum, ed. Angela Della Volpe (Lake Bluff, IL: Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, 1991); Surrealism & the Oneiric Process: Selected Essays, ed. Joseph Tyler (Carrollton, GA: West Georgia College, 1992); Pijao: Arte y literatura latinoamericana (journal; Bogot , Colombia). He is Consulting Editor and Editorial Board member for Collegiate Press, San Diego, CA, for the Collegiate English Handbook. His Ph.D. is from New York University; his M.A. from the New School for Social Research; and his B.A. in English from Baruch College, New York City.
Matilde Pons is an award-winning Mexican writer from Guanajuato, now living in Guadalajara. She is author of several novels such as La palabra me son¢ extra¤a (1968) and Donde el amor tiene un precio (1992), which are included in an anthology of Latin American writers, and a third novel entitled Agon¡a en rojo (1993). She has also authored the book of short stories and creative prose, S¢lo para intelectuales (1993). Her award-winning short story, "A trazo de pluma" (1988) has already been adapted for the big screen.
Francisco Sanabria is a painter who has lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for the last fifteen years after living in Colombia, where he was born. Greatly influenced by the French Impressionists, he has exhibited nationally and internationally and competed in many events, such as Festival of the Arts, "Flash and Fire," Santa Fe, NM (1985); Museum Fine Arts, "A Spirit Shared: Twenty Century Art of Mexico and New Mexico," Santa Fe, NM (1984); World Gallery, Washington, D.C. (1982); Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada (1980); Chapel Hill's Artists League, North Carolina (1976-1980). Some of his works have been acquired by museums, corporations, and private individuals as part of their collections.
Renee J. Schlueter is a Ph.D. candidate at Saint Louis University where she has taught literature and composition courses for seven years. She is currently writing her dissertation, "The Feme Sole and her Property: Renegotiating Marriage, Love, and Work, in Late Nine-teenth-Century British Literature."
Robert Sims, Professor of Foreign Languages at Virginia Common-wealth University, Richmond, has published extensively in Latin American literature, focusing often on authors such as Gabriel Garc¡a M rquez, Alvaro Cepeda Samudio, and so forth. In addition to his several books, his essays have been published in journals such as Hispania, South Atlantic Bulletin, Revista de Estudios Colombianos y Latinoamericanos, Literary Imagination, Latin American Research Review, and Hispanic Journal. He has been a Review Editor for The Comparatist, New Novel Review, Chasqui, and Revista de Estudios Colombianos y Latinoamericanos.
Jim Sizemore is a cartoonist, illustrator, and writer living in Baltimore, Maryland. He has written op-ed and short humorous pieces for newspapers and magazines; two of his plays have been produced in the Baltimore Playwrights Festival; and he is currently working with an editor at HarperCollins on the revision of his novel (for young adults), Where It all Happened. *We apologize for omitting Jim's bio in our previous issue, where his "The Postmodern Cartoon: WHAT is Going On Here?" (copyright 1991) was published on page 173.
Andrew Smyth is a doctoral candidate at Saint Louis University. He specializes in English Renaissance literature and is currently writing his dissertation on Edmund Spencer and Ireland.
W. Ross Winterowd is the founder and long-time director
of the doctoral program in rhetoric, linguistics, and literature
at the University of Southern California. His most recent book
(with Jack Blum) is A Teacher's Introduction to Composition
in Rhetorical Tradition, and he is at work on a history of
the humanities from the Enlightenment to the present.
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