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Volume 1: The Institutionalization of Literature in Spain
Ed. Wlad Godzich and Nicholas Spadaccini
Focuses on literature as institutionalized practice between 1700 and 1830, examining its production/reception as part of the same process. Contributors: Edward Baker, Wlad Godzich, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, José Antonio Maravall, Michael Nerlich, Ronald Sousa, Nicholas Spadaccini, Steven Suppan, and Iris M. Zavala.

Volume 2: Autobiography in Early Modern Spain
Ed. Nicholas Spadaccini and Jenaro Talens
Examines the "rise" of modern literature as articulated around the concept of autobiography. The essays deal with literary and historical production from the perspective of the reader as co-author/co-producer of meaning. Contributors: Patrick H. Dust, Ruth El Saffar, Edward H. Friedman, Antonio Gómez-Moriana, Margarita Levisi, George Mariscal, Helen H. Reed, Nicholas Spadaccini, Jenaro Talens, and Anthony N. Zahareas.

Volume 3: The Crisis of Institutionalized Literature in Spain
Ed. Wlad Godzich and Nicholas Spadaccini
Studies the consequences of the institutionalization of literature in the nineteenth century, and advances the notion that literature as an institution is torn between the push for greater homogenization and a series of crises engendered by that very movement. Contributors: Gwendolyn Barnes, Vicente Cacho Viu, Luiz Costa Lima, Wlad Godzich, René Jara, José Carlos-Mainer, Nancy J. Membrez, Michael Nerlich, Antonio Ramos-Gascón, Nicholas Spadaccini, Jenaro Talens, Domingo Yndurain, and Iris M. Zavala.

Volume 4: 1492-1992: Re/Discovering Colonial Writing
Ed. René Jara and Nicholas Spadaccini
Underscores the importance of writing as companion of empire, while at the same time highlighting its subversive power as a series of counter-narratives emerge to contest the tactics and values of the "victors." Contributors: Rolena Adorno, Tom Conley, René Jara, Antonio Gómez Moriana, Mario Gómez Moriana, Beatriz González Stephan, Lawrence C. Mantini Stephanie Merrim, Walter D. Mignolo, Beatriz Pastor, José Rabasa, Luis A. Ramos-García, Nicholas Spadaccini, Jenaro Talens, and Iris M. Zavala.

Volume 5: Ortega y Gasset and the Question of Modernity
Ed. Patrick H. Dust
Examines the work of Ortega y Gasset with respect to Modern and Post-modern culture, with particular emphasis on Technology and Reason. Contributors: Anthony J. Cascardi, Pedro Cerezo Galán, Antón Donoso, Patrick H. Dust, Wlad Godzich, Oliver W. Holmes, Angel Medina, Thomas Mermall, Ciriaco Morón Arroyo, Nelson E. Orringer, and Jaime de Salas.

Volume 6: Cervantes's Exemplary Novels and the Adventure of Writing
Ed. Michael Nerlich and Nicholas Spadaccini
Provides a philosophical, critical, and political reading of Cervantes's satirical novellas as they highlight the problem of language and communication. Contributors: Anthony J. Cascardi, Sybil Dumchen, Dina De Rentiis, Edward H. Friedman, Alban K. Forcione, Michael Nerlich, Francisco J. Sánchez, Caroline Schmauser, Nicholas Spadaccini, and Jenaro Talens.

Volume 7: The Politics of Editing
Ed. Nicholas Spadaccini and Jenaro Talens
Examines the political context of textual editing in relation to the Spanish canon as well as literary areas that have been marginalized-for example, texts written by nineteenth-century Spanish women and twentieth-century Latin-American poets. Contributors: Reinaldo Ayerbe-Chaux, Tom Conley, Myriam Díaz-Diocaretz, Pere Ferré, Susan Kirkpatrick, Joseph Ricapito, Nicholas Spadaccini, Elias L. Rivers, Evangelina Rodríguez, Colin Smith, Jenaro Talens, and Iris M. Zavala.

Volume 8: Culture and Control in Counter-Reformation Spain
Ed. Anne J. Cruz and Mary Elizabeth Perry
Explores the modes of repression and attempts at social control in Counter-Reformation Spain. Topics of discussion include theater, sermons, religious festivals, catechism, and inquisitorial blood statutes. Contributors: Gwendolyn Barnes-Karol, John R. Beverley, Anthony J. Cascardi, Jaime Contreras, Anne Cruz, Jean Pierre Dedieu, Sara T. Nally, María Helena Sánchez Ortega, Mary Elizabeth Perry, Bernard Vincent, and Alison Weber.

Volume 9: Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus
Ed. René Jara and Nicholas Spadaccini
Examines the constitution of an Amerindian world born of resistance against European cultural imperialism. Literary critics, linguists, semioticians and historians argue that the images constructed by the Amerindians to confront the consequences of their encounter with the European cultural apparatus ensures the endurance of their own culture. Contributors: Rolena Adorno, Manuel Alvar, José J. Arrom, George Baudot, Marta Bermúdez-Gallegos, Allen Carey-Webb, Amaryll Chanady, Tom Conley, Elena Feder, Leonardo García Pabón, Teresa Gisbert, David Henige, René Jara, David E. Johnson, Miguel León-Portilla, Angel López García, Santiago López Maguiña, Bernardita Llanos, Walter D. Mignolo, José Piedra, Mary Louise Pratt, Eloise Quiñones Keber, Roberto Reis, Nicholas Spadaccini, and Margarita Zamora.

Volume 10: Latin-American Identity and Constructions of Difference
Ed. Amaryll Chanady
Latin American identity is viewed as a hybrid and heterogeneous cultural construction characterized by problems specific to post colonial societies. Situating itself within the context of the most recent North American and European literary and cultural theories, it points to the lack of attention given to Latin American philosophical discourse by these institutions and the limitations of European narratological categories. Contributors: Fernando Aínsa, Blanca de Arancibia, Pierre Beaucage, Zilá Bernd, Amaryll Chanady, Enrique Dussell, Alberto Moreiras, Francoise Perus, José Rabasa, and Iris M. Zavala.

Volume 11: Critical Practices in Post-Franco Spain
Ed. Silvia López, Jenaro Talens, and Santos Zunzunegui
Offers a sampling of Spanish critical work in literary theory and cultural studies in the post-Franco period, with a focus on new discourses in various print and electronic media, on the discursive construction of the museum space, and on literary theory as it confronts issues of translation, subjectivity, writing, and narratology. Contributors: Manuel Asensi, Juan Miguel Company-Ramón, Jesús González Requena, Tom Lewis, Cristina Peña Marín, José María Pozuelo-Yvancos, Rafael Núñez-Ramos, Jenaro Talens, Darío Villanueva, and Santos Zunzunegui.

Volume 12: The Picaresque: Tradition and Displacement
Ed. Giancarlo Maiorino
Examines one of the major genres of Spanish Renaissance and Baroque literature from contemporary critical perspectives, dealing with those literary works not just as "monuments," but as "documents" where processes of institutionalization, political misreading, and the marginalization of discourses are inscribed. Contributors: Luis Beltrán, Anne J. Cruz, Nina Cox Davis, Manuel Durán, Edward H. Friedman, Carroll B. Johnson, Giancarlo Maiorino, Howard Mancing, Francisco J. Sánchez, George A. Shipley, Nicholas Spadaccini, Janis A. Tomlinson, and Marcia L. Welles.

Volume 13: Bodies and Biases
Ed. David William Foster and Roberto Reis
Analyzes different representations of sexualities in Hispanic (and Brazilian) cultures and literature, focusing on established canonical texts as well as on less consecrated literary writings, and other types of cultural practices and artifacts, including television, popular music, and pornography. Contributors: Javier Aparicio Maydeu, Silvia Bermúdez, Dario Borim Jr., Herbert J. Brant, Lou Charnon-Deutsch, Brad Epps, Ana García Chichester, David W. Foster, Gustavo Geirola, Mary S. Gossy, J. Eduardo Jaramillo Zuluaga, Salvador A. Oropesa, James A. Parr, Marina Pérez de Mendiola, Roberto Reis, Claudia Schaefer-Rodríguez, and Robert ter Horst.

Volume 14: Rhetoric and Politics. Gracian and the New World Order
Ed. Nicholas Spadaccini and Jenaro Talens
The work of the Spanish Jesuit Baltasar Gracián (whose Art of Wordly Wisdom has enjoyed considerable success in Europe and, recently, in the U.S.) becomes the starting point for a discussion on the political uses of rhetoric, from early modern times to the present. Contributors: Luís Avilés, Anthony J. Cascardi, David Castillo, Jorge Checa, William Egginton, Alban K. Forcione, Edward H. Friedman, Carlos Hernández-Sacristán, Isabel C. Livosky, Michael Nerlich, Oscar Pereira, Malcolm K. Read, Francisco J. Sánchez, Nicholas Spadaccini, and Jenaro Talens.

Volume 15: Framing Latin American Cinema
Ed. Ann Marie Stock
Focuses on the critical constructions of Latin American Cinema, and challenges those practices that reduce Latin American films to illustrations of U.S. and European film and cultural studies theories. It also provides insights into film industries in Cuba, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil, and Venezuela. Contributors: José Carlos Avellar, Beat Borter, Julianne Burton-Carvajal, Antonio Fornet, David William Foster, Néstor García Canclini, Ilene S. Goldman, Gilberto Gómez Ocampo, Teresa Longo, John Mraz, Paulo A. Paranaguá, Laura Podalsky, Patricia Santoro, and Ann Marie Stock.

Volume 16: Modes of Representation in Spanish Cinema
Ed. Jenaro Talens and Santos Zunzunegui
A discussion of the range and depth of Spanish national cinema through a close reading of films from the Republican period, under Franco, in the transition period, and, more recently, under socialism. Contributors: Stacy Beckwith, Juan- Miguel Company-Ramón, Tom Conley, Marvin D'Lugo, Jesús González Requena, Román Gubern, Lesley Heins Walker, Francisco Llinás, Antonio Monegal, Andrés Moreno, Oscar Pereira, Ricardo Roque-Baldovinos, Paul Julian Smith, Ann Marie Stock, Jenaro Talens, Casimiro Torreiro, Kathleen M. Vernon, Teresa Vilarós, and Santos Zunzunegui.

Volume 17: Cervantes and his Postmodern Constituencies
Ed. Anne J. Cruz and Carroll B. Johnson
Addresses the present status of Cervantes studies in light of the so-called culture wars fought between those who adhere to liberal-humanist and/or historicist readings and those whose work is guided by avant-garde, poststructuralist theory. Contributors: John J. Allen, Anthony Cascardi, David Castillo, Anthony Close, Ann Cruz, James Iffland, Carroll B. Johnson, Ellen Lokos, George Mariscal, Pablo Jauralde Pau, Charles D. Presberg, Nicholas Spadaccini, Diana de Armas Wilson, and Alison Weber.

Volume 18: A Revisionary History of Portuguese Literature
Ed. Miguel Tamen and Elena Buescu
Explores the relationship between literary history and revisionism, focusing on topics such as Medieval History-writing, Baroque culture, Poetics in the Enlightenment, fin-de-siècle Decadence, Symbolism, and Contemporary Criticism. Contributors: Teresa Amado, Elena Buescu, João Dionísio, António M. Feijó, Maria de Lourdes A. Ferraz, Manuel Gusmão M.S. Lourenço, Margarida Vieira Mendes, Victor Mendes, Paula Morão, J.C. Seabra Pereira, Vítor Aguiar e Silva, and Miguel Tamen.

Volume 19: Modernism and its Margins
Ed. Anthony Geist and José Monleón
Examines the prevailing notions that underlie most theoretical paradigms about modernism and how those paradigms fail to account for Spanish and, especially, Latin-American expressions. Contributors: Leslie Bary, Carlos Blanco Aguinaga, Néstor García Canclini, Santiago Colás, Jacqueline Cruz, Víctor Fuentes, Anthony Geist, René Jara, Randal Johnson, Susan Kirkpatrick, Neil Larsen, José Monleón, Guido Podestá, Alvaro Salvador, Beatriz Sarlo, George Yúdice, and Iris Zavala.

Volume 20: Culture and the State in Spain, 1550-1850
Ed. Tom Lewis and Francisco J. Sánchez
Examines the role of literature in the formation of cultural notions of 'state,' 'nation,' 'subject,' and 'citizen' in Spain from 1550 to 1850 and the relevance of these issues today in a new Spain-the Spain of nationalities-at the end of the millennium. Contributors: Edward Baker, David R. Castillo, Susan Kirkpatrick, Tom Lewis, Sara T. Nalle, Bradley J. Nelson, Mary Elizabeth Perry, Malcolm K. Read, Francisco J. Sánchez, Nicholas Spadaccini, and José A. Valero.

Volume 21: Charting Memory: Recalling Medieval Spain
Ed. Stacy Beckwith
Elaborates an interdiscursive picture of how medieval Spain has been remembered by various Arab, Jewish, and Hispanic peoples from 1492 to the present, foregrounding the constitutive roles of communities created through prayer, literary resonances, architecture, musical performance, and name giving, in shaping memories of medieval Spanish contexts as well as complex identities in the Balkans, the Near and Middle East, North Africa, Latin America, and the United States. Contributors: Beebe Bahrami, Stacy N. Beckwith, Judith R. Cohen, Manuel da Costa Fontes, Libby Garshowitz, Jack Glazier, Hsaïn Ilahiane, Louise Mirrer, Shmuel Refael, Dwight F. Reynolds, Reuven Snir, and Sultana Wahnón.

Volume 22: Latin American Literature and the Mass Media
Ed. Debra Ann Castillo and José Edmundo Paz-Soldán
Examines Latin American literature in the context of a contemporary audiovisual culture in which mass media such as photography, film, and the Internet have threatened writing's "representational privilege" as a technology of information processing and storage. Contributors: Ana María Amar Sánchez, Luis Ernesto Cárcamo H., Debra A. Castillo, Ignacio Corona, J. Patrick Duffey, Adriana Estill, David William Foster, Ricardo Gutiérrez Mouat, Carlos Jaúregui, Alfonsina Lorenzi, Ellen McCracken, Ana Merino, Susana Pajares Tosca, Edmundo Paz-Soldán, Marcy Schwartz, Shirin Shenassa, and Fernando Unzueta.

Volume 23: National identities and Socio-Political Changes in Latin America
Ed. Mercedes Durán-Cogan and Antonio Gómez-Moriana
In contrast to the dominant trends in Latin American Studies-which privilege either the literary, or the so called "areas studies," with its exclusive focus on political and economics issues-the basic assumption of this collective work is that the intricate web of discourse and other societal/symbolic practices in a given society results from, and nourishes, a complex dynamics of forces at play in the marketing of the Social. This dynamics, in its totality, constitutes a complex object of knowledge that this volume examines as a crossroads where historical contexts, economic and socio-political processes, and artistic representations interact. Contributors: Victor Armony, Tatiana Bubnova, James R. Cisneros, Isabel de Sena, Mercedes F. Durán-Cogan, Elena Feder, Dennis O. Flynn, José Alejos García, José Antonio Giménez Micó, Arturo Giraldez, Antonio Gómez-Moriana, Jorge Larraín Ibañez, Horacio Machín, Marcelo Nusenovich, Nicholas Spadaccini, Sylvia Wynter, and Valparaiso School of Architecture (various authors).

Volume 24: Iberian Cities
Ed. Joan Ramon Resina
Although Spanish and Portuguese literatures are rich sources of urban knowledge, compared to studies of cities like London, Paris, Vienna, or Rome, critical literary and cultural approaches devoted to modern Iberian cities have been notably scarce. Iberian Cites locates regional patterns of urbanization articulated in or around highly symbolic centers, calling attention to the extraordinary combination of factors, personal and collective, temporal and instantaneous, planned and coincidental, logical and ideological, virtual and representative, that make up the experience of the city. In this work, Joan Ramon Resina and a group of distinguished scholars from an array of disciplines remind readers that Hispania, ancient geographic matrix of people of Iberia, is still a system of interrelated cultures. Contributors: Maria Jesús Buxó i Rey, Brad Epps, Javier Gómez-Montero, Rafael L. Ninyoles, Joan Ramon Resina, Juan Carlos Rodríguez, Jenaro Talens, Miguel Tamen, Michael Ugarte, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Angela Vallvey, and Joseba Zulaika.

Volume 25: Pablo Neruda and the U.S. Culture Industry
Ed. Teresa Longo
This collection gathers a diverse group of critical and poetic voices to analyze the politics of packing and marketing Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and Latin American poetry in general in the United States. The ground swell of enthusiasm in America, the contributors argue, has relied upon a vastly oversimplified, romanticized, and depoliticized interpretation of Neruda's celebrated poetry as panacea-offering healing visions of community, hope, and wonder. The essays rediscover the richness to be found in the work of Neruda and his peers as a challenge to their commodification and misrepresentation in the American literary marketplace. This volume refocuses the lens through which we read, translate and write about Neruda-and Latin American culture-in the United States. Contributors: Giuseppe Bellini, Martín Espada, Irene B. Hodgson, Janice A. Jaffe, René Jara, Jill Kuhnheim, Teresa Longo, Julio Marzán, Silvia N. Rosman, Patricia Santoro, Ann Marie Stock, Marcos McPeek Villatoro, and Bruce Dean Willis.

Volume 26: Marriage and Sexuality in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
Ed. Eukene Lacarra Lanz
This collection of essays examines the politics of gender and desire in premodern Iberia. The editor brings together a group of noted specialists in Arabic, as well as Castilian, Catalan, and other Romance languages, to investigate the changes that affected marriage and sexuality over the course of a millennium, from approximately 650 to 1650 A.D. The contributors utilize a variety of literary and philosophical texts, legal documents, and medical treatises to explore a broad range of topics, such as shrew taming, wedding rituals, wet-nursing, cross-dressing, sodomy, and moral pornography. The volume's interdisciplinary approach traces the origins and genealogies of the predominant discourses on these subjects that engaged the minds of medieval and premodern writers, moralist, politicians, and scientists alike. Contributors: Gwendolyn Barnes-Karol, Dawn Bratsch-Prince, Emilie L. Bergmann, Marina S. Brownlee, David R. Castillo, Antonio Cortijo Ocaña, Manuel da Costa Fontes, Eukene Lacarra Lanz, Manuela Marín, Nicholas Spadaccini, Ronald Surtz, and Louise O. Vasvári.

Volume 27: Women's Narrative and Film in The Twentieth-Century Spain
Ed. Ofelia Ferrán and Kathleen M. Glenn
This volume tracks the development of the feminine cultural tradition in Spain and shows how this tradition reshaped and defined Spanish national identity. Focusing on literature and film by Spanish women from the turn of the century to "Generation X," this collection of essays examines how concepts of gender and difference have shaped the individual, collective, and national identities of Spanish women. The contributors also examine mass media productions by women in Spain that significantly modified the meaning and representation of female sexuality, affected the representation of the female body, and prompted new attitudes toward feminism, nationalism, and gender relations. Contributors: Catherine G. Bellver, Emilie L. Bergmann, Silvia Bermúdez, Maryellen Bieder, Brad Epps, Ofelia Ferrán, Roberta Johnson, Jo Labanyi, Linda Gould Levine, Susan Martin-Márquez, Annabel Martín, Gema Pérez-Sánchez, María Pilar Rodríguez, Akiko Tsuchiya, Kathleen M. Vernon, and Teresa M. Vilarós.

Volume 28: Latin America Writes Back: Postmodernity in the Periphery. An interdisciplinary Cultural Perspective
Ed. Emil Volek
After years of marginalization in the international debate on global change, Latin American scholars present their own response to the theories and practices of postmodernity in this collection of essays. The editor of this volume has assembled contributions across a range of interdisciplinary perspectives that illuminate contemporary Latin American culture by high-lighting from within many changes scarcely noticed in Europe and the U.S. Issues discussed in light of these recent changes include the notorious Latin American conflicts with modernity, the vexing problems of cultural identity, strategies of resistance to global trends, and the pervasive misconceptions about Latin American culture perpetuated within the United States and Europe. Together the essays clarify that Latin America is neither what is used to be nor what it is expected to be, but rather a new reality long overlooked by the world beyond.Contributors: Fernando Ainsa, Daniel Altamiranda, Jesús Martín Barbero, José Joaquín Brunner, Raúl Bueno, Abelardo Castillo, Mempo Giardinelli, Rafael Ángel Herra, Jorge Larraín, Horacio Machín, Mario Roberto Morales, Osvaldo Pelletieri, Armando Silva, Nelly Richard, Hernán Thomas, and Emil Volek.

Volume 29: The State of Latino Theater in the United States: Hibrity, Transculturation, and Identity
Ed. Luis A. Ramos-García
This collection investigates the politics of cultural pluralism and identity construction within the increasingly outspoken Latino theater community in the United States. The essays reveal the nurturing relationships between people, theater, and culture that have allowed Chicano, Nuyorican/Puerto Rican, Cuban, Cuban-American, and other Latino artists to gain critical and professional respect in recent years. Works by influential writers, such as Rodrigo Duante, Cherrie Moraga, Javier Cardona, John Leguizamo, and José Rivera are analyzed in historical context, along with the trajectories of pioneering theater groups, including Pregones, The Puerto Rican Travelling Group, Teatro Campesino, Intar Theater, La Tea, and Repertorio Español. Contributors: Gastón Adolfo Alzate, Jossianna Arroyo, Eduardo Cabrera, Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez, Elsa M. Gilmore, Patricia González, M. Teresa Marrero, Marcos Martínez, Rosalina Perales, Luis A. Ramos-García, Beatriz J. Rizk, Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez, Nancy Saporta Sternbach, Tamara Underiner, and Hernán Vidal.

Volume 30: Ideologies of Hispanism
Ed. Mabel Moraña
Bringing together contributions from top specialists in Hispanic studies - both Peninsular and Latin American - this volume explores a variety of critical issues related to the historical, political, and ideological configuration of the field. Dealing with Hispanism in both Latin America and the United States, the volume's multidisciplinary essays range from historical studies of the hegemonic status of Castillian language in Spain and America to the analysis of otherness and the uses of memory and oblivion in various nationalist discourses on both sides of the Atlantic.Wide-ranging though they are, these essays are linked by an understanding of Hispanism as a cultural construction that originates with the conquest of America and assumes different intellectual and political meanings in different periods, from the time of national cultural consolidation, to the era of modernization, to the more recent rise of globalization. Contributors: Idelber Avelar, Anthony Cascardi, Román de la Campa, Brad Epps, Sebastiaan Faber, Lydia Fossa, Thomas Harrington, Sylvia Molloy, Mabel Moraña, Alberto Moreiras, Joan Ramón Resina, Nicholas Shumway, Nicholas Spadaccini, and Ignacio Sánchez Prado.

Volume 31: Hispanic Baroques: Reading Cultures in Context
Ed. Nicholas Spadaccini and Luis Martín-Estudillo
The essays focus on the Baroque as a concept and category of analysis which has been central to an understanding of Hispanic cultures during the last several hundred years. Contributors: Fernando R. De la Flor, Hernán Vidal, William Egginton, Fernando Ordóñez, David Castillo, Bradley J. Nelson, Carlos M. Gutiérrez, Nieves Romero-Díaz, Silvia Suárez, Paola Marín, Leonardo García-Pabón, Mabel Moraña, and Edward Friedman.

Volume 32 : Reason and Its Others Italy, Spain, and the New World
Ed. David R. Castillo and Massimo Lollini
By exploring manifestations of normative and non-normative thinking in the geopolitical and cultural contexts of Early Modern Italy, Spain, and the American colonies, this volume hopes to encourage interdisciplinary discussions on the Early Modern notions of reason and unreason, good and evil, justice and injustice, center and periphery, freedom and containment, self and other. Contributors: Andrea Battistini, Silvia Contarini, Leah Middlebrook, Bradley Nelson, Nathalie Hester, Dianne Dugaw and Amanda Powell, John Marino, William Childers, William Egginton, Julio Baena, Anthony Cascardi, Fernando R. de la Flor, George Mariscal, Margaret Greer, Fernando Ordóñez, Giuseppe Mazzota, Luis Martín- Estudillo, and Nicholas Spadaccini.

Volume 33: Generation X Rocks: Contemporary Peninsular Fiction, Film, and Rock Culture
Ed. Christine Henseler and Randolph D. Pope
Essays in this volume explore the popular cultural effects of rock culture on high literary production in Spain in the 1990's. Contributors: Samuel Amago, Paul D. Begin, Kathryn Everly, Christine Henseler, Linda Gould Levine, Matthew J. Marr, Luis Martín-Cabrera, Luis Martín-Estudillo, Nina Molinaro, Gonzalo Navajas, Jorge Pérez, Randolph D. Pope, Cintia Santana, and Elizabeth Scarlett.

Volume 34 : Spanish and Empire
Ed. Nelsy Echávez-Solano and Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez
Essays in this volume deal with the historical, linguistic, and ideological legacy of the Spanish Empire and its language in the New World. Contributors: Verónica Albin, Bruce Campbell, Susan M. Campbell, Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez, Nelsy Echávez-Solano, José Antonio Giménez Micó, Juan C. Godenzzi, Thomas Harrington, John M. Lipski, Juan R. Lodares, Clare Mar-Molinero, Luis Martín-Estudillo, Fernando Ordóñez, Edmundo Paz-Soldán, Nicholas Spadaccini, and Ilan Stavans.

Volume 35 :Post-Authoritarian Cultures: Spain and Latin America's Southern Cone
Ed. Luis Martín-Estudillo and Roberto Ampuero
This volume explores the role played by culture in the transition to democracy in Latin America's Southern Cone (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile) and Spain, with a focus on opposing stances of acceptance and defiance by artists and intellectuals in post-authoritarian regimes. Contributors: Luis Bagué-Quílez, Estrella de Diego, Hans-Otto Dill, Jorge Edwards, Ana Forcinito, David W. Foster, Carsten Humlebæk, Germán Labrador, Juliet Lynd, Antonio Méndez Rubio, Gustavo Remedi, and Heinrich Sassenfeld.

Volume 36: Latin American Jewish Cultural Production
Ed. David William Foster
This collection of essays explores the significant contributions to cultural production and the arts, as well as the considerable presence in academic and intellectual circles of Jews in Latin America. Contributors: Janis Breckenridge, Laura Felleman Fattal, Hernán Feldman, David William Foster, Edward H. Friedman, Sarah Giffney, Ilene S. Goldman, Ariana Huberman, Naomi Lindstrom, Amalia Ran, Márcio Seligmann-Silva, and Berta Waldman.