Sara J. Brenneis

Sara J. Brenneis is pleased that the title "Emeritus" is associated with her work at Flak; it will be at least 40 years before she will see that title next to her name again, and the intervening years may not be pretty.

Sara hails from Madison, Wisconsin, a town she vehemently defends to East or West Coasters who have no idea that non-bovine life exists in the middle of the country. She has, let it be known, lived on both sides of the United States, in New York City and in Berkeley, California, and so understands these things.

You may wonder why many of Sara's articles for Flak have a certain Spanish flair, and the answer is quite simple. You see, Sara is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Amherst College. She has studied Spanish literature and culture on the campuses of Wesleyan University and the University of California, Berkeley, and on the streets, classrooms and dancefloors of Madrid, Barcelona and cities across the Iberian Peninsula.

She is, in addition, responsible for the use of the word mamarracho on TV's "The Late Show with David Letterman."

— Sara J. Brenneis (sara at flakmag dot com)