ILAN STAVANS, PH.D. -Author and Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture
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Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College.

His award-winning books include “The Hispanic Condition” (1995), “The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories” (1998), “On Borrowed Words” (2001), “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda” and “Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language” (both 2003). He is also the editor of the three-volume set of “Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories: (2004), released under the aegis of The Library of America. His work has been translated into half a dozen languages. Routledge published “The Essential Ilan Stavans” in 2000.

Dr. Stavans is the host of La Plaza’s: “Conversations with Ilan Stavans.”