Juan E. Corradi, a native of Argentina, was educated there and in the United States. Currently an associate professor of sociology at New York University, he has also taught at the University of Massachusetts, the University of California (San Diego and Santa Cruz), and Memorial University, Newfoundland. He is coauthor of Ideology and Social Change in Latin America (with June Nash and Hobart Spalding, 1977) and author of Textures: Critical Essays on the Politics of Discourse (forthcoming).