Mimi Reisel Gladstein, co-editor of Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand, is a Professor of English and Theatre Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso, where she is currently Associate Dean of Liberal Arts. She was the first Director of the Women’s Studies Program at her university. She has chaired the English Department twice, was the Executive Director for the University’s Diamond Jubilee Celebration, and Director of the Western Cultural Heritage Program. She is the author of The Ayn Rand Companion (1984) and The Indestructible Woman in Faulkner, Hemingway, and Steinbeck (1986). She has won international recognition for her work on John Steinbeck, the John J. and Angeline Pruis Award for Steinbeck Teacher of the Decade (1978-1987) and the Burkhardt Award for Outstanding Contributions to Steinbeck Studies in 1996. She has been a Fulbright Professor in Venezuela (1990-91) and Spain (1995). Currently, she is working on a second edition of The Ayn Rand Companion and a volume on Atlas Shrugged for the Twayne Masterworks series, Atlas Shrugged: Manifesto of the Mind.

Mimi Gladstein lives in El Paso, Texas with her husband. She has three children and two grandaughters.