Mary Lee Bretz is Professor of Spanish Emerita and former Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers University. Professor Bretz received her Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Maryland. She has published numerous books and articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literature and on the application of contemporary literary theory to the study and teaching of Hispanic literature.

Trisha Dvorak is Senior Program Manager with Educational Outreach at the University of Washington. She has coordinated elementary language programs in Spanish and taught courses in Spanish language and foreign language methodology. Professor Dvorak received her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin. She has published books and articles on aspects of foreign language learning and teaching, and is co-author of Composición: Proceso y síntesis (Fourth Edition: 2004, McGraw-Hill), a writing text for third-year college students.

Carl Kirschner is Professor of Spanish and Dean of Rutgers College. Formerly Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers, he teaches courses in linguistics (syntax and semantics), sociolinguistics and bilingualism, and second language acquisition. Professor Kirschner received his Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts. He has published a book on Spanish semantics and numerous articles on Spanish syntax, semantics, and bilingualism, and edited a volume on Romance linguistics.

Rodney Bransdorfer received his Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has taught at Purdue University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Gustavus Adolphus College. He is currently Associate Professor of Spanish at Central Washington University. He has presented papers at national conferences such as AATSP and AAAL. He is co-author of Pasajes: Lengua (2002, McGraw-Hill), the Manual que acompaña ¿Qué te parece? (1996 and 2000, McGraw-Hill), authored the instructor’s annotations for Nuevos Destinos: Spanish in Review (1998 and 2003, McGraw-Hill), and co-authored the instructor’s annotations for Destinos: Alternate Edition (1997, McGraw-Hill).

Constance Moneer Kihyet is Professor of Spanish at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California, where she currently teaches a wide range of courses in Spanish language and Latin American civilization and culture. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish at Florida State University in 1979, specializing in Golden Age literature. Her interests and publications include studies of Golden Age and nineteenth-century Spanish literature, as well as aspects of second-language acquisition and teaching methodology. She has reviewed numerous McGraw-Hill texts, including ¿Qué tal? An Introduction to Spanish Fifth Edition, and Tapices literarios, and presented seminars on foreign-language teaching methodology. Professor Kihyet has written testing materials for the Pasajes: Lengua, Fourth Edition, program and is a co-author of the testing program to accompany Puntos de partida: An Invitation to Spanish, Sixth Edition. She is co-author of El mundo hispano: An Introductory Cultural and Literary Reader and Con destino a la comunicación. She has also served as a contributing writer and reviewer on various components of the Fourth Edition of the Pasajes program.