Aníbal González Pérez, from Puerto Rico, is Professor of Modern Latin American Literature in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. A Ph.D. in Latin American Literature from Yale University (1982), he has also taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Vanderbilt University, Michigan State University, and the Pennsylvania State University. He was general editor of the Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature Series of Cambridge University Press from 1995 to 1997, and currently serves on the editorial boards of Comparative Literature Studies, Latin American Literary Review, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (Washington U. in St. Louis), Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, and Revista Iberoamericana, and on the Advisory Board of PMLA. He is the founder and general editor of the Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory Series of Bucknell University Press. A Guggenheim Fellow (2001), he has authored the following books: La crónica modernista hispanoamericana (1983), La novela modernista hispanoamericana (1987), Journalism and the Development of Spanish American Narrative (1993), Killer Books: Violence, Writing, and Ethics in Modern Spanish American Narrative (2002; Spanish translation: Abusos y admoniciones: ética y escritura en la narrativa hispanoamericana moderna, 2002), and A Companion to Spanish American Modernism (2007).