Miguel L?pez is an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico where he teaches Latin American narrative and Border Studies. In 1998, he received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of California at Berkeley with a dissertation on Mexican women indigenous writers. His current research focuses on utopia and apocalypse in the Mexican and Chicano novel in times of globalization. His articles have appeared in Mexico, United States, and Germany.