Luz Angélica Kirschner is a permanent full-time lecturer currently
teaching in the Departments of American and Inter-American Studies
at the Bielefeld University, Germany. In May, 2008, she earned a
PhD in comparative literature from the Pennsylvania State
University. Recently she has written articles on Ilan Stavans,
Latin@s in the U.S.A., Puerto Rico, Generación del treinta, and
Tato Laviera for World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia
(2011). Kirschner is currently editing a volume called Expanding
Latinidad: An Inter-American Perspective (2012)and working on her
book manuscript with the working title Transnational Subjects:
Spectres of Essentialism.