Mary Louise Pratt Doctora en Literatura comparada por Stanford University. En la actualidad labora en el Department of Spanish and Portuguese New York University. Publicaciones destacadas: 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, con 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, reimpreso en 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000); Ojos imperials (1997); Os olhos do Império (1999); Reviews: Times Literary Supplement (1992); Victorian Studies (1993); Annals of the Association of American Geographers (1993); Canadian Literature (invierno de 1992 y primavera de 1993); Choice (1992); Feminist Review (1993); Journal of Modern History (1996); Journal of Historical Geography (1994); American Ethnologist (1994); Eighteenth Century Studies (primavera de 1993); Novel (1995); Research in African Literatures (1993); Folha de São Paulo (1999); Revista de Estudos Históricos (2000, Brasil); Signos (1999, México).