Four M.A. students in Spanish recently attended the 39th annual Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies at Stony Brook University. The quartet not only presented papers at the conference (whose theme was "Borders & Boundaries: New Latin American Realities”), but also participated in an all-Spanish panel discussion. "The panel grew out of a graduate seminar I taught last fall on the national romances of Latin America," says Associate Professor Alicia Ríos (pictured). “The Graduate School financed the whole trip."