The Author: Brígida M. Pastor is Senior Lecturer of Hispanic studies at the University of Glasgow. She received her doctorate from the University of Bristol. She is the author of many articles and essays on the Cuban writer as well as El discurso de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda: Identidad Femenina y Otredad (2002). She has also published widely on other topics within Spanish and Latin American literature and on Cuban and Spanish film. In 1999, her studies on Avellaneda earned her a special award from the Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda Chair in Gender Studies at the Instituto de Literatura y Lingüística, Havana, Cuba.