Eva M. Fernández is Professor at the City University of New York, USA. Her research focuses on cross-linguistic language processing in monolingual and bilingual populations; she has additional research interests in measures of student success in higher education.

Helen Smith Cairns is Professor Emerita at the City University of New York, USA. She has pursued research in sentence processing and in first language acquisition, writing or editing six books and numerous articles and chapters. She is most proud of the students she has mentored over the years.