Julia A. Kushigian is the Hanna Hafkesbrink Professor of Hispanic Studies at Connecticut College. Her literary and cultural studies are transnational probes of immersive works that engage compelling views of the Spanish-speaking world. She is the author of Orientalism in the Hispanic Literary Tradition. In Dialogue with Borges, Paz and Sarduy; Reconstructing Childhood. Strategies of Reading for Culture and Gender in the Spanish-American Bildungsroman; and Crónicas orientalistas y autorrealizadas: Entrevistas con Borges, Fuentes, Goytisolo, Poniatowska, Sarduy y Vargas Llosa.