Dr. Angélica J. Huízar is Associate Professor of Spanish and International Studies at Old Dominion University.  Her research focuses on avant-garde poetry, Latin American digital poetics, and graduate seminars on Cultural Studies. She has authored several refereed publications and presented more than forty professional conference papers in the United States and abroad. Her book entitled, Beyond the Page: Latin American Poetry from the Calligramme to the Virtual (2008), focuses on the aesthetic and theoretical relationships between art, music, sound, visual typography and the word in avant-garde poetry including digital poetics of Mexico, Uruguay, Chile, Peru and Brazil. Her most recent research interests center on digital poetics and aesthetics through a cultural studies lens.