Robert J. Blake (Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin) is Professor of Spanish at the University of California, Davis, and Director of the UC Consortium for Language Learning & Teaching. He has published widely in the fields of Spanish linguistics, second language acquisition, and computer-assisted language learning. He was the chief academic consultant for Nuevos Destinos (Annenberg/CPB Project, WGBH, and McGraw-Hill, 1998) and co-author on Tesoros (BeM, McGraw-Hill, 2001), a five-disc multimedia CD-ROM program for introductory Spanish. He has co-authored with María Victoria González Pagani both Al corriente: Curso intermedio de español (McGraw-Hill, 2003: Fourth Edition) and "Spanish Without Walls," a distance-learning course offered through the UC Davis Extension.

Javier Blasco Pascual (Universidad de Salamanca, Ph.D.) is professor of Spanish Literature and Literary Theory at the Universidad de Valladolid (Spain). He is both the author and editor of numerous books and articles on Miguel de Cervantes, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Ramón Valle Inclán, Modernist literature, the Piscaresque novel, and Spain's cultural history. He recently published Cervantes, raro inventor (Universidad de Guanajuato, 1998) and Juan Ramón Jiménez, prosista (Fundación Juan Ramón Jiménez, 2000). He has served as visiting professor at the Universidad de Puerto Rico, the University of Montreal, the University of California at Davis, and the University of Dakar (Senegal). He is the founding director of Imaginando.com, a digital journal dedicated to promoting creative writing and literary exchanges. Currently, Dr. Blasco directs a research group that is in the process of editing the complete works of Juan Ramon Jiménez.