Robert E. Bayliss, Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Kansas, earned his BA from the University of Notre Dame, his MA in Comparative Literature from The University of Georgia, and his PhD in both Hispanic Literature and Comparative Literature from Indiana University. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Miami University in Ohio in 2003-4, and has published articles in Comparative Drama, Bulletin of the Comediantes, Comedia Performance, and Comparative Literature Studies. He also contributed a chapter to the MLA's Approaches to Teaching Boccaccio's Decameron and to a forthcoming MLA volume on pedagogical approaches to the picaresque tradition. His current research focuses on early modern Spanish cultural production from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.