Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez is a Professor of Literature at the University of California, Merced. His publications include Gaspar de Villagrá: Historia de la nueua Mexico (critical edition, forthcoming in 2010), Gaspar de Villagrá: Legista, soldado y poeta (2009), Life in Search of Readers: Reading (in) Chicano/a Literature (2003), La voz urgente: Antología de literatura chicana en español (1995, 1999, and 2006), Rolando Hinojosa y su “cronicón” chicano: Una novela del lector (1993), as well as numerous articles in edited volumes and journals, including PMLA, Modern Language Quarterly, The Bilingual Review, The Americas Review, La Palabra y el Hombre, Hispania, Revista Iberoamericana, Latin American Literary Review, REDEN, and Aztlán, among others. Martín-Rodríguez is also the publisher of alternative-publications.