Julie Jones is a professor of Spanish, teaching courses in 20th-century Spanish and Spanish-American narrative, Spanish film and Spanish and Spanish-American culture. She has published numerous articles on narrative and on film (specifically the work of Luis Buñuel) in such journals as Cineaste, Cinema Journal, The Journal of Film and Video, Romanic Review, and Comparative Literature, to name just a few; a book entitled A Common Place: The Representation of Paris in Spanish-American Fiction (Bucknell UP); as well as translations of two novels: Diary of a Humiliated Man by Félix de Azúa (Brookline Books) and His Only Son by Leopoldo Alas (LSU Press). She also supplied the running commentary to the Miramax DVD of Buñuel’s Belle de Jour. Professor Jones also teaches Mexican film and culture at the UNO summer writing workshops in San Miguel de Allende.