Mester (ISSN 0160-2764) is the graduate student journal of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Los Angeles. It is published annually with the generous assistance of the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Del Amo Foundation, and the UCLA Graduate Students Association.

Submission Guidelines. To be considered for publication, manuscripts should follow the conventions of the latest edition of the MLA Style Manual*. It is presumed that all submissions are original research, and not previously published in any other form. Submissions that are being considered by another journal or any other publisher will not be accepted.

An article submission should have no fewer than 15 pages (3750 words) and no more than 25 double-spaced pages (8000 words), including endnotes and Works Cited (the bibliography should start on a new page). Please use Times New Roman font, size 12 point and number all pages, including the bibliography. Please do not write your name on the manuscripts but include it in your cover letter, along with: the title of your article, your institutional affiliation, e-mail, work and/or home address.

Submissions of reviews for works published within the past year are accepted for the following categories: academic books, linguistics, film and fiction. Reviews should be between 500 and 1200 words in length. Publishers and authors are welcome to submit books for possible selection. Please send complete submissions electronically (via e-mail) and only use Microsoft Word 95 or higher.

Address all correspondence to: Mester, Editor-in-Chief, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1532 or mester@ucla.edu. For more information, you may visit www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/spanport/Mester/mester.html.

Copyright © 2006 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. ISSN 0160-2764.

*Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. 2nd ed. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1998.