Enrique Mallen earned his doctorate at Cornell University in 1989. He is currently Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Texas A & M University in College Station. His publications include Con/figuracion Sinta;ctica: Poesia del Des/lenguaje; The Embodiment of the Pictorial Sign: Pablo Picasso's Early Cubism; Metaphor and Cognition in Pablo Picasso's Synthetic Cubism; and A Minimalist Approach to Picasso's Visual Grammar: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.