Dr. Tomás Regalado-López is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and chair of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at James Madison University, in Virginia. He is the author of "La novedad de lo antiguo: la novela de Jorge Volpi (1992-1999) and is also co-author of "Crack. Instrucciones de uso"/"Crack. A User´s Manual" (Mondadori, 2004), a collection of essays written with the seven Crack writers. He has published articles in journal and books from the U.S., Mexico, Venezuela, Spain, France and Germany. Tomás is the current advisor for the JMU Latino Student Alliance and proudly represents SPAIN!