Ilan Stavans
- Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture, Amherst College
Ilan Stavans is the publisher of Restless Books (, and a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary. His most recent books are A Nation Wrestles With God: American Prophets, Philosophers, and Firebrands ( and, due out in November 2026, Fictional Translations (
He has taught courses on a wide array of topics, such as Spanglish, Jorge Luis Borges, Shakespeare in prison, modern American poetry, Latin music, Don Quixote, Gabriel García Márquez, Modernismo, popular culture in Hispanic America, world Jewish writers, the cultural history of the Spanish language, Pablo Neruda, the history of the Spanish language, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Yiddish literature, Jewish-Hispanic relations, cinema, Latin American art, and U.S.-Latino culture.
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