Mary Louise Pratt PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford University. He currently works at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese New York University. Featured Posts: Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse (1977); Reviews: Journal of Literary Semantics (1979); Journal of Pragmatics, Language (1979); Sewanee Review (1979); Journal of Esthetics and Art Criticism Winter (1977-1978); Modern Language Notes 92 (1977); Papers on Language and Literature Summer (1978); Religious Studies Review (1978); Choice Dec. (1977); PTL 3 (1978); Philosophy and Rhetoric (1978); Sub-Stance (1978); Style (1978); Spektator (1979-1980); Literair Paspoort (1980); Journal of Linguisitics (1980); International Studies in Philosophy (1980); Lingua e Stile (1980); Literature and Performance (1980). 1980 Linguistics for Students of Literature (1990, with Elizabeth Closs Traugott); Women, Culture and Politics in Latin America. Co-authored by the Seminar on Feminism and Cultur e in Latin America (8 members). (paperback 1991); Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. (1992, reprinted in 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000); Imperial eyes (1997); You olhos do Império (1999); Reviews: Times Literary Supplement (1992); Victorian Studies (1993); Annals of the Association of American Geographers (1993); Canadian Literature (winter 1992 and spring 1993); Choice (1992); Feminist Review (1993); Journal of Modern History (1996); Journal of Historical Geography (1994); American Ethnologist (1994); Eighteenth Century Studies (spring 1993); Novel (1995); Research in African Literatures (1993); Folha de São Paulo (1999); Journal of Historical Studies (2000, Brazil); Signs (1999, Mexico).