Throughout the years, numerous scholars from national and foreign institutions have lectured to our students: Charles Altieri (University of California, Berkeley), Massimo Bacigalupo (Universita di Genova), John Xiros Cooper (University of British Columbia), Robert Kroes (University of Amsterdam), Angela Downing (Universidad Complutense), Gloria Gutiérrez (Nottingham Trent), Mark Hutchings (U. Reading), Laura Hidalgo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Heinz Ickstadt (Free University Berlin), Paul Lauter (Trinity College), Shirley Lim (University of California, Santa Barbara), Deborah Madsen (University of Geneva), Marjorie Perloff (University of Stanford), Stephen Thompson (University of Reading), Paul Scott Derrick (Universidad de Valencia), Martin Heusser (Universidad de Zürich), Thomas Austenfeld (Universidad de Fribourg, Suiza), John Gery (University of New Orleans).