She is expected to earn a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro this summer. Stewart, whose teaching specialty is composition and rhetoric, is from High Point University in High Point, N.C., where she was a lecturer. Maria Luisa Torres is an assistant professor of Spanish. She is expected to earn a Ph.D. from Purdue University this summer. Torres, whose teaching specialties are contemporary Spanish American literature and culture, 19th century Spanish American narrative, and Andean literatures and cultures, was a teaching assistant at Purdue before joining the Coastal faculty.