Louise O. Vasvári, who received her Ph.D. at the University of California in Berkeley, is Professor of Comparative Literature and of Linguistics at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. She has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley and Davis, at the Oetvos Lorand University and at the Central European University (Budapest), the University of Connecticut (Storrs) and she currently teaches one course in the linguistics department at New York University. Her interests include medieval literature, socio-linguistics, translation theory, and Holocaust studies, all informed by gender theory. She has published widely in these areas, ranging from medieval Spanish, Italian, and English to queer theory, the latter in particular in relation to emerging queer discourses in Hungarian. Related to the Spanish Romancero she has published The Heterotextual Body of the “Mora Morilla” (1999). More recently she has published, with Louise Haywood, Companion to the “Libro de Buen Amor” (2004), and, with Steven Tötösy, Imre Kertész and Holocaust Literature (2005), with whom she also has in press Comparative Central European Holocaust Studies. This semester she is Visiting Professor at the Université de Jules Verne in Amiens, France.