Writers of the Spanish Colonial Period

David William Foster is Regents' Professor of Spanish, Interdisiplinary Humanitics, and Women's Studies and Chair of the Department of Languages and Literatures at Arizona State University. He is the editor of Literatura Espanola: una Antologia, Literatura Hispanoamericana: una Antologia, and Handbook of Latin American Literature, Second Edition, all published by Garland.

Daniel Altamiranda is Visiting Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. Former Assistant Professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, he has published on literary theory, contemporary Latin American writing and Golden Age Drama.