Hungry I's: Cookery and Self-Construction in Cristina Fernández Cuba's "Los altillos de Brumal"

Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci is an associate professor of Spanish at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. A graduate of Wellesley College (AB) and Stanford University (M.A., Ph.D.), Geoffrion-Vinci specializes in contemporary literature of Spain, ap plied linguistics, and language-teaching methodologies. Her research interests include contemporary poetry and Spanish women writers from the nineteenth century to the present. In her most recent publications, she interrogates issues of gender in works by Spanish authors such as Cristina Fernandez Cubas (1945-). She has also published nu merous studies on Rosalia de Castro including Between the Maternal Aegis and the Abyss: Woman as Symbol in the Poetry of Rosalia de Castro (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2002).