Naomi Lindstrom is the Gale Family Foundation Professor in Jewish Arts and Culture, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and Co-Director of the Gale Collaborative for the Study of Jewish Life in the Americas at the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Her recent books are Early Spanish American Narrative (2004) and The Social Conscience of Latin American Writing (1998). She manages the listserv of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association.