Kathleen T. O’Connor-Bater is Associate Professor of Modern Languages (Spanish/French) at the College at Old Westbury of the State University of New York. She has published a book of translation A Bilingual Anthology of Poems by Rubén Darío (1915). She has previously taught at Houghton College and Princeton University. She earned her PhD from Columbia University with a dissertation in the area of Spanish Cognitive Linguistics; she holds a master's degree in Liberal Studies from Johns Hopkins University.