Hello, I'm a new member of the PILAS list, and here are a few details. I'd be really interested to hear from anyone doing literary studies in this field. Fiona Mackintosh Centre for British and Comparative Cultural Studies University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL email: [log in to unmask] tel/fax: 01788 822537 After doing a first degree in Music, French and Spanish then an MPhil specializing in Spanish-American literature (with a thesis on the novels and short fiction of the contemporary Argentine writer Luisa Valenzuela) I am now doing a PhD on Argentine women writers, particularly Silvina Ocampo and Alejandra Pizarnik. As well as this I am doing some more general teaching for the Dept. of Comparative American Studies here at Warwick on Spanish-American short fiction. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%