Art and the Artist in Society

Jose Jimenez-Justiniano is a PhD student in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas-Dallas. He has presented papers and published on the use of history in literature, these include From celebration to rebellion to subversive submission in Atenea. Elsa Luciano Feal has a PhD in Literature of the Anglophone Caribbean from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. Her research focuses on exile, particularly that of women writers. She has presented papers on the topic at many conferences in Puerto Rico, St. Croix, Antigua, and St. Martin, et al. Her work has been published in La Torre, Sargasso, El amauta and Queen: a journal of rhetoric & power. She has taught English at the University of Puerto Rico-Arecibo for many years, and has been, for the last six years, the editor of the universitys academic journal FORUM. Jane E. Alberdeston is an artist, poet and Assistant Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico-Arecibo. Her work has been published in various anthologies and literary magazines, such as Bilingual Review (Arizona State University Press) and Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language and Culture. She co-authored the novel Sister Chicas (Penguin Books, 2006), about growing up Latina in the US. She was recently selected for New York University's Resident Scholar Program for research on her current novel, Invisible Choirs. A graduate of Binghamton University's doctoral program in English, she is a proud alumna of Cave Canem, an organization for writers of African descent.