Editorial Board

The members of the Editorial Board of ANTARES Publishing House have been chosen for their expertise in their fields. They are:

Margarita Feliciano, Board Director

Margarita Feliciano is a poet, critic and literary translator of Italo-Argentinian origin, living in Canada and supporting the Hispanic community since 1969. She has published several books of poetry and her works have appeared in anthologies and in other publications in Europe and in the Americas. She is a professor Emerita at Glendon College, York University. A tireless volunteer and advocate for the Hispanic community, Feliciano was recognized in 2009 as one of  "10 Most Influential Hispanic-Canadians"  in the area of literacy.

Alexandre Brassard was born in Lac Saint-Jean (Quebec). Educated at Université Laval and York University, he is Glendon's Director of Research and he also teaches Political Science. His areas of interests are research methodologies, Canadian politics, nationalism, political psychology and cultural policies. He is co-editor of a collective book on Ontario-Québec relations funded by a SAIC research grant.

Julianna Drexler is Head of the Frost Library located on the Glendon
Campus. She is fluently trilingual in Hungarian, French and English and
is making attempts to learn Spanish.

Gabriela Etcheverry is a writer, literary critic and cultural advocate from Ottawa and also the co-founder of Red Cultural Hispánica (Hispanic Cultural Network). She received her Ph.D. in Literature from Laval University and published her novel Latitudes in 2007. Gabriela's poems and short stories from her collections El árbol del pan and Tú y yo have been published in various magazines, anthologies and websites in Canada and Chile. She currently manages the literary magazine Qantati (www.qantatiliterario.com) and is working on a new novel set in Gravenhurst, Ontario, the homeland of her husband.

Steven Glassman is a professional manager. Following a dozen years as a manager of laboratories, he completed an MBA and moved into the printing industry. He has worked with weekly and monthly newspapers, magazines, trade journals, and book publishers. Steve joined York University in 2004 as the Director of its in house print shop, mailing department and bookstore and is also a founding director of The Force for Cultural Event Productions, a non profit organization that produces 60 literary events a year. Steve’s proudest accomplishment is as a co-founder of Pages Books and Magazines, which has a 30 year history as an independent bookseller and community destination in the downtown Queen Street West scene in Toronto.

Patricia Keeney is a poet and novelist. She was awarded one of the first

North American Free Trade Agreement Artisic Residencies and spent an

extended period of time in Mexico working on a series of dialogues with

actor-director Roberto D'Amico and poet Ethel Krauze. Author of seven

volumes of poetry, her work has been translated and published in India,

China, France and Bulgaria as well as in major journals in Canada, the

UK and South Africa. She is a professor of Creative Writing at York

University.

Modupe Olaogún is an associate professor of English at York University, where she teaches African and postcolonial literatures and drama. She has published articles on different genres of African literature. Her current research focuses on the aesthetics of African drama and on African literature and explores the subject of migration and dispersals from Africa. She provides an avenue for the dissemination of African drama as the artistic producer of AfriCan Theatre Ensemble (Toronto), which she founded in 1998. Since 2006 she has served as Master of Stong College at York University. Professor Olaogun earned a B. A. and an M. A. in English at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and a PhD in English from York University.

María del Carmen Romero Cachinero graduated from the University Complutense of Madrid and completed her Ph.D. at OISE/U of Toronto in Educational Psychology. She works with the Toronto District and the Toronto Catholic District School Boards.

Don Rubin is President of the Canadian Theatre Critics Association and a

member of the International Executive Board of the International Association of Theatre Critics. A former President of the Canadian Centre of the International Theatre Institute, he was the Founding Editor of the quarterly journal Canadian Theatre Review and is perhaps best known in the publishing field as Editor of Routledge's six volume World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre, one volume of which is devoted to theatre in Latin America.  A founding professor of York University's Faculty of Fine Arts and its Department of Theatre, he served as Chair of the Theatre program from 1979 to 1982. He is the editor of the standard volume Canadian Theatre History: Selected Readings (Playwrights Canada Press, first published in 1996).