Barbara Simerka is an associate professor at Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY). She is the author of Discourses of Empire and editor or co-editor of three volumes of critical essays and of a special issue of the periodical Cervantes. She has published over twenty essays, with emphasis on interdisciplinary and feminist approaches. With Christopher Weimer, ... Read moreshe co-authored several articles on Don Quixote and postmodern film and founded the electronic journal Laberinto. Her most recent works employ cognitive theories to study tragic drama and genre theory, political drama (privanza), and contemporary feminist science fiction. Show Less