Maarten van Delden is Professor and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Carlos Fuentes, Mexico and Modernity (Vanderbilt University Press, 1998), which received an "Outstanding Scholarly Book" award from "Choice" magazine, and co-author (with Yvon Grenier) of Gunshots at the Fiesta: Literature and Politics in Latin America (Vanderbilt University Press, 2009). He is currently writing a book examining the evolution of cultural stereotypes in the relationship between Mexico and the United States.
