Lucille Kerr is professor of Latin American literature in the Deptartment of Spanish and Portuguese and an affiliated faculty member in comparative literary studies, Jewish studies, and Latin American and Caribbean studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of "Suspended Fictions: Reading Novels by Manuel Puig" and "Reclaiming the Author: Figures and Fictions from Spanish America". She is the director of the Web-based "Latin American Literature and Film Archive" and a review editor of the "Latin American Literary Review".