The Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies
Ilan Stavans
Author Information
Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, publisher of Restless Books, and host of NPR's show "In Contrast." His books include On Borrowed Words (2001), Spanglish: The Making of a New American language (2003), Dictionary Days (2008), Gabriel García Márrquez: The Early Years (2010), Singer's Typewriter and Mine (2012), A Critic's Journey (2013), Quixote: The Novel and the World (2015), and The Seventh Heaven: Travels through Jewish Latin America (2019). He is general editor of The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (2011). He has translated Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, and Juan Rulfo into English, Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop into Spanish, and Cervantes and Shakespeare into Spanglish. His work, translated into twenty languages, has been adapted into film, radio, TV, and theater.
Contributors:
Frederick Luis Aldama, Department of English, Ohio State University
Stacey M. Alex, Center for Latin American Studies, Ohio State University
Alicia Arrizón, Department of Women's Studies, University of California, Riverside
Ruth Behar, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Silvia Betti, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Bologna
Mari Castañeda, Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Debra Castillo, Latino/a Studies Program, Cornell University
Renata Enghels, Department of Linguistics, Ghent University
Matylda Figlerowicz, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Regina Galasso, Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Ivonne M. Garcia, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Office, College of Wooster
Mario T. Garcia, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California-Santa Barbara
Erualdo R. González, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, California State University-Fullerton
Charles Hatfield, Center for U.S.-Latin America Initiatives, The University of Texas at Dallas
Felipe Hinojosa, Department of History, Texas A&M University
Jorge Iber, College of Arts & Sciences, Texas Tech University
Alex Nava, Department of Religious Studies and Classics, University of Arizona
Susana Nuccetelli, Department of Philosophy, St. Cloud State University
Rolando Pérez, Department of Romance Languages, Hunter College
Sarah M. Quesada, Department of English, University of Notre Dame
Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez, Spanish Department, Amherst College
Doris Sommer, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Ilan Stavans, Spanish Department, Amherst College
Silvio Torres-Saillant, English Department, Syracuse University