Born in Geneva (Switzerland), Vartan P. Messier has taught Literature, Film, French and English in Europe and the U.S. as well as in Central America and the Caribbean. He is now a Doctoral Candidate in Comparative Literature at the University at the University of California at Riverside. His research focuses on the critical discourses on modernity, modernism, and postmodernism in literature and the visual arts.Nandita Batra was born in Bombay, receiving a Bachelor’s and Master’s from the University of Delhi (India) and a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester (New York) She is now Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, where she is also editor of Revista Atenea, the University’s journal of humanities and social sciences.

Born in Geneva (Switzerland), Vartan P. Messier has taught Literature, Film, French and English in Europe and the U.S. as well as in Central America and the Caribbean. He is now a Doctoral Candidate in Comparative Literature at the University at the University of California at Riverside. His research focuses on the critical discourses on modernity, modernism, and postmodernism in literature and the visual arts.Nandita Batra was born in Bombay, receiving a Bachelor’s and Master’s from the University of Delhi (India) and a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester (New York) She is now Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, where she is also editor of Revista Atenea, the University’s journal of humanities and social sciences.

Born in Geneva (Switzerland), Vartan P. Messier has taught Literature, Film, French and English in Europe and the U.S. as well as in Central America and the Caribbean. He is now a Doctoral Candidate in Comparative Literature at the University at the University of California at Riverside. His research focuses on the critical discourses on modernity, modernism, and postmodernism in literature and the visual arts.Nandita Batra was born in Bombay, receiving a Bachelor’s and Master’s from the University of Delhi (India) and a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester (New York) She is now Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, where she is also editor of Revista Atenea, the University’s journal of humanities and social sciences.