About the Author

Louise O. Vasvari taught at the State University of New York Stony Brook where she is professor emerita. She has also taught at the universities of California Berkeley and Davis, Eotvos Lorand, Central European, Connecticut, and currently teaches at New York University. Her recent book publications include The Heterotextual Body of the ""Mora Morilla"" (1999), Companion to the ""Libro de Buen Amor"" (with Louise Haywood (2004), and Imre Kertesz and Holocaust Literature (with Steven Totosy de Zepetnek, 2005). Steven Totosy de Zepetnek teaches media and communication studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and literature and (comparative) cultural studies at National Sun Yat-sen University. Totosy de Zepetnek is editor of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (ISSN 1481-4373) and series editor of the Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/comparativeculturalstudies.html>.