Kevin Donnelly received his Ph.D. in Spanish (Colonial Spanish American Studies) from New York University in 2006. From 2006 to 2011 he was Assistant Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. He currently resides in New York City where he continues to teach and work on international education and curriculum policy. He is also involved in translation projects ranging from fictional literary translations to historical texts and the promotion of new Latin American cinematic projects. Sandra Sider received her Ph.D.

in comparative literature from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1978), and was Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at The Hispanic Society of America 1985-94. She has translated the sonnets of Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz and the poetry of Sappho, and is the author of The Handbook to Life in Renaissance Europe (Facts on File, 2005). She currently teaches art history online for the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.