William Luis

William Luis is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University, where he edits the Afro-Hispanic Review. He has also taught at Dartmouth College, Washington University in St. Louis, Binghamton University, and Yale University. Luis has authored, edited, and co-edited 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), Lunes de Revolución: Literatura y cultura en los primeros años de la Revolución Cubana (2003), 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), and Looking Out, Looking In: Anthology of Latino Poetry (2013). Currently, he is finishing a monographic study of the “Life and Works of the Cuban Enslaved 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.