CHARLES TATUM is Emeritus Professor of Spanish at the University of Arizona. He served as dean of the College of Humanities from 1993 to 2008. He is the author of a monographic study Chicano Literature (1982), published in translation in Mexico in 1986. Among his other book-length publications are: Chicano Popular Culture, 2001, (2nd edition, 2017); Chicano and Chicana Literature: Otra voz del pueblo (2006); and Lowriders in Chicano Culture. He has edited or co-edited several anthologies of Mexican American literature. Tatum served as editor for a 3-volume Encyclopedia of Latino Culture (2013).