Elizabeth Montes Garcés is an Associate Professor in the Department of French, Italian and Spanish at the University of Calgary. She is the author of El cuestionamiento de los mecanismos de representación en la novelística de Fanny Buitrago (1997) and of numerous articles published in prestigious journals such as Texto crítico, Letras Femeninas, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Anuario de Letras, and Revista de Literatura Mexicana Contemporánea. She is editor of Relocating Identities in Latin American Cultures (2007: University of Calgary Press). She is currently at work on a book on the relationship between body and text in the works of four Latin American female writers: Ana María Shua, Diamela Eltit, Carmen Boullosa, and Laura Restrepo.