Mary Ann Gosser Esquilín is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Florida Atlantic University. She holds a PhD from Yale University, an MA from the Université de Provence I, France, and an AB from Bryn Mawr College. She has published in several journals, including Journal of Caribbean Literatures, Journal of Language and Sexuality, Centro, and Sargasso, and a chapter in the MLA's Teaching the Literature of Climate Change.