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Luis Cortest is Associate Professor of Spanish. From 1992-1999 he served as Chair of the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma. Professor Cortest studied at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid before he was awarded the Ph. D. in Hispanic literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. His principal interests include: Spanish religious writers of the sixteenth century, Medieval Spanish literature and the history of Spanish thought. Professor Cortest has published a critical edition of the Arte para servir a Dios by Fray Alonso de Madrid (1989). He is also the editor of a collection of studies on the colonial Mexican writer, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1989), and a festschrift for José Duránd (1994). At present, Professor Cortest is writing a book on the theological and juridical sources of the "School of Salamanca."