Benigno Trigo is currently Associate Professor of literature at Vanderbilt University. His areas of expertise include literary theory, psychoanalysis, and Spanish American literature. His publications include "Subjects of Crisis: Race and Gender as Disease in Latin America" (2000), "Noir Anxiety" (Co-authored with Kelly Oliver, 2003) and "Foucault and Latin America: Deployments and Appropriations of Discursive Analysis" (2002).