Advisory Editor, Ilan Stavans
Ilan Stavans has been called "the czar of Latino culture in the
United States" by the New York Times and "Latin America's liveliest
and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast"
by the Washington Post.
Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Latin
American and Latino Culture at Amherst College
and the recipient of numerous honors, including
a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Latino Literature
Prize, the Antonia Pantoja Award, Chile’s Presidential
Medal, and the Rubén Darío Distinction. He earned an
Emmy nomination as host of the PBS show La Plaza:
Conversations with Ilan Stavans. He has taught at
Columbia University, Oberlin College, and Smith College,
among other institutions.
His books include Spanglish: The Making of a
New American Language (2003), The Hispanic Condition
(1995), On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language (2001),
and Dictionary Days: A Defining Passion (2005). He is
also the editor of The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories
(1998), The Poetry of Pablo Neruda (2003), the three-volume
set of Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories (2004),
The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature (2005),
and the four-volume Encyclopedia Latina (2005). His
fiction includes The Disappearance: A Novella and
Stories (2006), which includes the story "Morirse está en hebreo,"
adapted for the screen as My Mexican Shiva (2007), directed
by Alejandro Springall and co-produced by John Sayles.