#  William Luis 

 

 



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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.

 

 

 





 

 

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