Cathy L. Jrade is Chancellor's Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She has published several scholarly books on Spanish American modernismo including Rubén Darío and the Romantic Search for Unity: The Modernist Recourse to Esoteric Tradition (1983, 1986), as well as Modernismo, Modernity, and the Development of Spanish American Literature (1998) and Delmira Agustini, Sexual Seduction, and Vampiric Conquest (2012). In addition she has contributed studies on modernismo to the Cambridge History of Latin American Literature (1998) and the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4th ed., 2012). Christina Karageorgou-Bastea is Associate Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Arquitectónica de voces: Federico García Lorca y el Poema del cante jondo (2008). Her research focuses on ethics and aesthetics with a special emphasis on poetry and Transatlantic literature in the Hispanic context. She has written a number of articles on Spanish and Latin American authors such as Valle-Inclán, Lorca, Salinas, Cernuda, Peri-Rossi, Neruda, Villaurrutia. She is the editor of the Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies.