Guadalupe Mart -Pe a, of Pennsylvania State University (University Park), currently teaches courses in Spanish-American Contemporary Narrative and Cultural/Literary Critical Theory. Her research interests include Spanish American writers whose intertextual writings bridge the gap between high and low cultural practices (especially Manuel Puig and Mario Vargas Llosa), as well inter-art discourses and detective fiction. She published the first comprehensive annotated bibliography on Puig's criticism, which led to her collaboration on the critical edition of El beso de la mujer ara a under the di...