Linda Gould Levine is Professor of Spanish and former director of the Women's Studies program.  She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University and has taught at Rutgers University and at Dartmouth College, where she was a Visiting Professor.  Her areas of specialization are contemporary Spanish literature, the Spanish novel, women writers from Spain and Latin America, and feminist literary criticism.  She is the author of a book on Juan Goytisolo’s early fiction,  Juan Goytisolo: la destrucción creadora (Joaquín Mortiz, 1976) and published a critical edition of Juan Goytisolo's novel, Reivindicación del Conde don Julián (Cátedra, 1986).  She has also completed the critical edition of Goytisolo’s revised Don Julián for Cátedra (2004). She is also the author of Isabel Allende, a critical study of the author’s work (Twayne Publishers, 2002).  She is co-author with Gloria Feiman Waldman of a book of interviews with Spanish feminists, Feminismo ante el franquismo: entrevistas con feministas de España (Ediciones Universal, 1980), and co-editor with Gloria Feiman Waldman and Ellen Engelson Marson of Spanish Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Source Book (Greenwood Press, 1993), a collection of fifty critical essays on Spanish women writers from the 15^th to the 20^th century.  She is also co-editor with Ellen Engelson Marson of Proyecciones sobre la novela (Ediciones del Norte,1997), a collection of essays on the contemporary Spanish and Latin American novel that were presented as papers at the Annual Latin American and Spanish Literature conference at MSU.  She serves as Chair of the Women's Colloquium for the International Institute in Madrid, Spain. In 2002-2003, she directed Lidia Falcón’s play ¡Vamos a por todas!,  which was performed by Montclair State students at the Repertorio Español in New York in 2002 and at Montclair State in 2003.