William Luis is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University where he edits the Afro-Hispanic Review. Luis has authored, edited, and coedited fourteen books and more than one hundred scholarly articles.  His books include Literary Bondage: Slavery in Cuban Narrative (1991), Dance Between Two Cultures: Latino Literature Written in the United States (1997), Culture and Customs of Cuba, (2000), Juan Francisco Manzano. Autobiografía del esclavo poeta y otros escritos (2007), Bibliografía y antología crítica de las vanguardias literarias del Caribe: Cuba, Puerto Rico, República Dominicana (2010), Looking Out, Looking In: Anthology of Latino Poetry (2013), and The AmeRícan Poet: Essays on the Works of Tato Laviera (2014). Currently, he is finishing a monographic study of the “Life and Works of the Cuban Slave Poet Juan Francisco Manzano.” Luis was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2012. Born and raised in New York City, Luis is widely regarded as a leading authority on Latin American, Caribbean, Afro-Hispanic, and Latino U.S. literatures.