Nexos (with Audio CD)
Sheri Spaine Long (PhD, UCLA) is a Professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where she teaches Spanish language, literature, and culture courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. As a scholar-teacher, she bridges the study of languages and literatures. She also teaches interdisciplinary courses in English such as "Foreign Literatures in Translation" and "Madrid-as-Text." Her fields of interest are broad and range from contemporary Spanish prose to Spanish language and culture, global literature, foreign language pedagogy and policy, and international education. She has co-authored the following textbooks with Cengage recently--NEXOS: INTRODUCTORY SPANISH, PUEBLOS: INTERMEDIATE SPANISH IN CULTURAL CONTEXTS, and ALIANZAS: INTERMEDIATE SPANISH.Maria Carreira is Associate Professor of Spanish at California State University, Long Beach. She holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Illinois, Champaign. Carreira has written linguistic notes, profiles of well-known Hispanics, and heritage learner annotations. She is active in issues relating to heritage learners.Sylvia Madrigal, a Yale graduate, has been in the foreign language publishing field for about 20 years. She has worked at Houghton Mifflin and at D.C. Heath, where she helped develop and write activities for the award-winning Dimelo CD-ROM series. She has authored a variety of educational materials, including video scripts for HM's TravelTour video and Caminos del jaguar.Kris Swanson has an M.A. in Hispanic Studies from Brown University. She has been in the foreign language publishing field for about 15 years. She currently works as a consultant and freelance writer, editor, and project manager.