ILAN STAVANS LEWISSEBRING PROFESSOR IN LATIN AMERICAN AND LATINO

ILAN STAVANS

Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture

Amherst College

Amherst, MA 01002

Tel. (413) 542-8201

Fax. (413) 542-2759

Cell. (413) 519-4376

E-mails: [email protected]

BIRTH: April 7, 1961

ACADEMIC LIFE

Amherst College Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture, 2000-

Full Professor, 1993-

Five College 40^th Anniversary Professor, 2005-2009.

University of London Research Fellow, 1998-99

Bennington College Associate Faculty, Creative Writing, 2000, 2002, 2007.

Oberlin College Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies, March 2004.

Columbia University Visiting Professor of Poetry, Fall 2004, Spring and Fall 2005.

Mount Holyoke College Five College-40^th Anniversary Professor, Spring 2006.

Smith College Five College-40^th Anniversary Professor, Fall 2006.

University of Texas-San Antonio Brackenridge Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2008.

Stanford University-Chile Distinguished Visiting Professor, June 2008, June 2009.

Universidad Diego Portales, Chile Cátedra Roberto Bolaño, May 2009.

Distinguished Visiting Professor, May 2014

University of Massachusetts, Amherst Five College-40^th Anniversary Professor, Spring 2010.

Doshisha University, Japan Distinguished Exchange Professor, May 2010.

Muhlenberg College Mellon Humanities Scholar-in-Residence, March 2015.

DEGREES

Columbia University PhD 1990

M. Phil 1989

MA 1988

The Jewish Theological Seminary MA 1987

Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana BA 1984

COMPANY

Restless Books, a division of ESH (Ellison, Stavans, and Hochstein), LLC, Publisher, 2013-present.

Quixote Productions, LLC. Chairman and CEO, 2003-present.

Great Books Summer Program (Amherst, Stanford, Oxford), Co-Founder and Academic Director at Large, 2001-present.

GENERAL

W.H.A.T. (Wellfleet Harbor Actor’s Theatre)—The Lab, Advisory Board, 2010-2014.

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s Latino American Affair Commission, head of Education Subcommittee, 2008-present.

Oxford Bibliography: Latino Studies, general editor, 2011-present.

Honorary Curator: Latino Collection, Amherst College, 2002-present.

Project Director: Salpica: Visual Artists from Latin America and the United States in Dialogue, 2008-2010. Sponsored by the U.S. State Department through the Institute of Training and Development; Isaac Bashevis Singer Centennial, 2004. Sponsored by the NEH and in cooperation with The Library of America, the American Library Association, The Mercantile Library, 92^nd Street Y, Skirball Center, National Yiddish Book Center, Henry Ransom Humanities Center, etc.

Series editor: [1] Jewish-Latin America, published by the University of New Mexico Press. Twice nominated to the National Jewish Book Award, 1997-2006. [2] Latino Voices, published by Northwestern University Press, 2003-2009.

General Advisor: The Latino American Experience. ABC-CLIO Online, 2007-2012.

Editor: The Ilan Stavans Library of Latino Civilization, ABC-CLIO, 2008-2012.

Founder and Senior Faculty: Great Books Summer Program, Amherst College, Stanford University, and Oxford University, 2000-.

Film: Morirse está en hebreo. [English: My Mexican Shivah.] Based on the story of the same title by Ilan Stavans. Directed by Alejandro Springall, co-produced by John Sayles. Springall Productions. Release: New York Jewish Film Festival, January 2007. Audience Award for Best Comedy, Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival, 2007. Shown in over 35 festivals worldwide.

TV: Conversations with Ilan Stavans. PBS-WGBH. Produced by Joseph Tovares for La Plaza, 2001-2006. Distributed to more than 70 stations nationwide. The dozens of guests include John Leguizamo, Rubén Blades, Linda Chavez, Paquito D’Rivera, Jimmy Smits, Carlos Castaneda, Julia Alvarez, Esmeralda Santiago, Richard Rodriguez, Jorge Ramos, and Junot Díaz. Nominated for an Emmy Award, 2004; nominated for two Emmy Awards, 2003.

Theater: The Disappearance, adapted to the stage by Double Edge Theatre. Music by Paquito D’Rivera. Premiered in Poland, 2008. World tour: 2008-2010; The Oven, dir. Matthew Glassman, fall 2014-.

Board: National Yiddish Book Center, 2000-2009; Double Edge Theater, 2007-; Journal of Modern Jewish Studies; Review: Latin American Literature and the Arts, 1999-2009; El País/Culturas (Montevideo); Encuentro; The Literary Review; Forward; Tablet; World Literature Today; The Massachusetts Review; The Bloomsbury Review; Habitus; The Common.

Column: Lengua fresca. Syndicated weekly in Spanish-language newspapers like El Diario (New York) and El Planeta (Boston). 2007-present; El ‘heart’ en la palabra, Cuadernos Cervantes, Madrid, Spain 2002-2005.

Judge: Paul and Daisy Soros Foundation, 2010; NEH, 2004, 2009; Jewish Book Award, 2007, 2008, 2009; PEN, 2005; NEH, 2004, 2015; Guggenheim Foundation, 2004; IMPACT-Dublin Prize, 2003; Koret Prize, 2001; The 100 Most Important Modern Jewish Books, sponsored by The National Yiddish Book Center, 2002; El Andar magazine, 1999; Massachusetts Council for the Humanities, 1995; McArthur Foundation Nominator; NYSCA, 1993; Cintas Foundation, 1993, 1998, 2002; etc.

Museum Exhibit: Monsters and Miracles: Jewish Picture Books through the Ages. Curated by Ilan Stavans, Neal Sokol, and Tal Gozani. Los Angeles: Skirball Cultural Center, April 2010. Amherst, MA: Eric Carle Museum, 2010; Once@9:54am. Museo de la Memoria, Rosario, Casa Roberto Artl, Buenos Aires, 2011, National Yiddish Book Center, 2012; Idols and Murals: The Life of Anita Brenner. Senior Curatorial Advisor, Ilan Stavans. Los Angeles: Skirball Cultural Center, April 2017.

Selected Books

English

Borges, the Jew. Buffalo, New York: SUNY Press, 2016.

Words in Transit: Stories of Immigrants. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016.

Once @ 9:53am, fotonovela with Marcelo Brodsky. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2016.

Lazarillo de Tormes, translated and edited by Ilan Stavans. Norton Critical Edition. New York: W.W. Norton, 2016.

Oy, Caramba! An Anthology of Jewish Stories from Latin America, edited by Ilan Stavans. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 2016.

I Love My Selfie. Essay by Ilan Stavans. Self-Portraits by Adál. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.

Quixote: The Novel and the World. New York: W.W. Norton, 2015.

Reclaiming Travel, with Joshua Ellison. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2015.

I Was a Schizophrenic Mambo Dancer for the FBI. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Galleria Paraíso, 2014.

Julio Cortázar: Hopscotch, Blow Up, We Loved Glenda So Much. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. New York: Everyman’s Library, 2014.

The Underdogs, by Mariano Azuela. Translated by Ilan Stavans, with Anna More. Norton Critical Edition. New York: W.W. Norton, 2014.

Latin Music: Rhythms, Themes, and Musicians, edited by Ilan Stavans. 3 vols. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2014.

A Most Imperfect Union: A Contrarian Cartoon History of the United States, with Lalo Alcaraz. New York: Basic Books, 2014. A New York Times Bestseller.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Latino Art. Ilan Stavans and Jorge J. E. Gracia. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2014.

All the Odes, by Pablo Neruda. Edited by Ilan Stavans. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2013.

Golemito, illustrated by Teresa Villegas. Atlanta, Georgia: New South Books, 2013.

The United States of Mestizo. Atlanta, Georgia: New South Books, 2013.

¡Muy Pop! Conversations on Latino Popular Culture. Ilan Stavans and Frederick Aldama. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2013.

Once@9:53: A Fotonovela with Marcelo Brodsky. E-book. New York: Restless Books, 2012.

El Iluminado, a graphic novel by Ilan Stavans and Steve Sheinkin. New York: Basic Books, 2012.

Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: Norton Critical Edition of Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition. Edited by Ilan Stavans. Translated by David Frye. New York: W. W. Norton, 2012.

Singer’s Typewriter and Mine: Reflections on Jewish Culture. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012. [Portions translated into Spanish, Hebrew, Chinese, and French.]

The Plain in Flames, by Juan Rulfo. Translated by Ilan Stavans, with Harold Augenbraum. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012.

The Centaur in the Garden, by Moacyr Scliar. Translated by Margaret A. Neves. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. Madison, Wisc.: Texas Tech University Press, 2011.

Return to Centro Histórico: A Mexican Jew Looks for His Roots. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2012.

José Vasconcelos: The Prophet of Race. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2011.

What is la hispanidad? Ilan Stavans and Iván Jaksic. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. [Translated into Spanish and Chinese.]

The FSG Book of 20^th-Century Latin American Poetry, edited by Ilan Stavans. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011; paperback, 2012. Best book 2012, Kansas City Star, The San Francisco Chronicle. [5^th printing; paperback 2012]

Ernesto Galarza: Barrio Boy. Introduction to the 40^th Anniversary Edition by Ilan Stavans. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame University Press, 2010.

The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature. Ilan Stavans, general editor. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011. [Paperback with Online component, 2011.]

El mundo al revés/The World Upside Down. Fables by Ilan Stavans. Artwork by Teresa Villegas. Limited edition. Scottsdale, Arizona: Santo Press, 2010.

Cesar Chavez: A Photographic Essay. El Paso, Texas: Cinco Puntos Press, 2010.

One Hundred Years of Solitude: Critical Insights, edited by Ilan Stavans. Pasadena, CA and Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press, 2009.

With All Thine Heart: Love and the Bible. Ilan Stavans with Mordecai Drache. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2010.

Euclides da Cunha: Backlands: The Canudos Campaign. Translated by Elizabeth Lowe. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. New York: Penguin Classics, 2010.

Gabriel García Márquez: The Early Years. Volume one of a two-volume set. New York and London: Palgrave, 2009. [Translated into Chinese.]

Gabriel García Márquez: Critical Insights, edited by Ilan Stavans. Pasadena, CA and Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press, 2009.

Jimmy Santiago Baca: Selected Poems: Bilingual Edition. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. New York: New Directions, 2009.

Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing. Edited by Ilan Stavans. Introduction by Pete Hamill. New York: Library of America, 2009. [Paperback 2014.]

A Critic’s Journey. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009. [Portions translated into Spanish, Hebrew, and French.]

Mr. Spic Goes to Washington. Illustrated by Roberto Weil. New York and Los Angeles; Soft Skull/Counterpoint, 2008.

Resurrecting Hebrew. New York: Schocken, 2008.

César Vallejo: ‘Spain, Take This Chalice from Me’ and Other Poems. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. Edited and with an introduction by Ilan Stavans. New York and London: Penguin Classics, 2008.

Knowledge and Censorship (with Verónica Albin). New York and London: Palgrave, 2008.

Cesar Chavez: An Organizer’s Tale. Speeches. Edited and with an introduction by Ilan Stavans. New York and London: Penguin Classics, 2008.

Delano, by John Gregory Dunne, Introduction by Ilan Stavans. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2007.

Love and Language (with Verónica Albin). New Heaven, Con.: Yale University Press, 2007.

A Luis Leal Reader. Edited and introduced by Ilan Stavans. Chicago, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2007.

Pablo Neruda: I Explain a Few Things: Selected Poems. Edited by Ilan Stavans. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. [12^th printing.]

Collins Q&A: Latino History and Culture. New York: Collins Publishers, 2007.

The Disappearance: A Novella and Stories. Evanston, Il: Northwestern University Press, 2006. Foreword Top 10 Pick, 2007. A “Big Ten” pick, ForeWord Magazine, January/February 2007. [Paperback, 2008]

Lengua Fresca. Edited by Ilan Stavans and Harold Augenbraum. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, scheduled 2006.

Rubén Darío: Selected Writings. Edited and with an introduction by Ilan Stavans. Translated by Andrew Hurley, Greg Simon, and Steve F. White. New York: Penguin Classics, 2005.

My Sax Life, by Paquito D’Rivera. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. Chicago, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2005.

Dictionary Days: A Defining Passion. St. Paul, Minnesota: Graywolf, 2005. [Spanish translation.]

Conversations with Ilan Stavans. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2005.

Encyclopedia Latina. 4 vols. Ilan Stavans, editor-in-chief. New York: Grolier/Scholastic, 2005. Named best Reference Book, Library Journal, and Editor’s Choice, Booklist, 2005.

The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature. Edited by Ilan Stavans. New York: Schocken, 2005.

Deborah, by Esther Kreitman. Translated by Maurice Carr. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. New York: The Feminist Press, 2004.

The Letters that Never Came, by Mauricio Rosencof. Translated by Louise Popkin. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2004.

Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories. Edited by Ilan Stavans. 3 vols. New York: The Library of America, 2004.

Isaac Bashevis Singer: Album. Edited by Ilan Stavans. New York: The Library of America, 2004.

Ilan Stavans: Eight Conversations, by Neal Sokol. Madison, Wisc.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.

¡Lotería! Art by Teresa Villegas. With an essay and riddles by Ilan Stavans. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003.

Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language. New York: Rayo/HarperCollins, 2003. [7^th printing; paperback: Rayo, 2004; new paperback, Harper, 2007.]

The Poetry of Pablo Neruda. Edited by Ilan Stavans. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003; London: Allan Lane, 2003. [17^th printing; paperback: FSG, 2005]

Tent of Miracles, by Jorge Amado. Translated by Barbara Shelby. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. Madison, Wisc.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.

The Centaur in the Garden, by Moacyr Scliar. Translated by Margaret A. Neves. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. Madison, Wisc.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. [5^th printing. New edition, Texas Tech University Press, 2011.]

1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezón of Castile, by Homero Aridjis. Translated by Betty Ferber. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003.

The Scroll and the Cross: 1,000 Years of Jewish-Hispanic Literature. Edited by Ilan Stavans. New York and London: Routledge, 2003.

Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. Translated by Fanny Bandelier, revised by Harold Augenbraum. New York: Penguin, 2002. [8^th printing.]

H. M. Hudson: The Purple Land. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.

Mariano Azuela: The Underdogs. Translation by E. Murguía and Berth Jorgensen. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. New York: The Modern Library, 2002. [3^rd printing]

Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number. Translated by Tobby Talbot. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. [3^rd printing.]

Wachale! Poetry and Prose on Growing Up Latino. Edited by Ilan Stavans. Chicago, IL: Cricket Books, 2001. [Selected as one of Los Angeles’ 100 Best Books, 2001 by the Los Angeles Unified School District Library Services.]

On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language. New York and London: Viking, 2001; paperback: Penguin, 2002. [10^th printing. Sections translated into Polish, German, Portuguese, and Spanish.]

Martin A. Cohen: The Martyr. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001.

Octavio Paz: Intellectual in Motion. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. Nominated for the James Russell Lowell Prize.

Efraín Huerta: 500,000 Azaleas. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 2001.

Nina Barragán: Losers and Keepers in Argentina. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001.

The Inveterate Dreamer: Essays and Conversations on Jewish Literature. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2001.

Peter Matthiessen: Sal Si Puedes: César Chávez and the New American Revolution. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. [3^rd printing]

The Essential Ilan Stavans. New York and London: Routledge, 2000. [Portions translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, Japanese, and German.]

Latino U.S.A.: A Cartoon History. Illustrations by Lalo López Alcaráz. New York: Basic Books, 2000. [10^th printing; Selected as a 2001 Books for the Teen Age by the New York Public Library. Expanded 15^th Anniversary Edition, 2012.]

Teresa Porzecanski: Sun Inventions and Perfumes of Cartage. Preface by Ilan Stavans. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000.

Ricardo Feierstein: Mestizo. Translated by Stephen Sadow. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000.

Mutual Impressions: Writers of the Americas Reading One Another. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1999.

Moacyr Scliar: Collected Stories. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. Nominated to the National Jewish Book Award, 2000.

Sergio Troncoso: The Last Tortilla and Other Stories. Forward by Ilan Stavans. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1999.

Isaac Goldemberg: The Fragmented Life of Don Jacobo Lerner. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.

The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. [10^th printing. Alternate selection of Book of the Month Club and Quality Paperback Book Club]

Domingo F. Sarmiento: Facundo: or, Civilization and Barbarism. Translated by Mary Mann. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. New York and London: Penguin Classics, 1998. [20^th printing.]

Hopscotch: A Cultural Review (1998-2001), published by Duke University Press. Ilan Stavans, Editor-in-Chief. Recipient an Alternative Media Award, 1999, and runner-up for the Best New Learned Journal, 1999. Described by Library Journal as “one of the ten best magazines of 1999.”

Ana María Shúa: The Book of Memories. Translated by Dick Gerdes. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998.

Calvert Casey: The Collected Stories. Edited and with an introduction by Ilan Stavans. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998.

Alicia Freilich: Cláper. Translated by Joan Friedman. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998.

Alberto Gerchunoff: The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas. Foreword by Ilan Stavans. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. [3^rd printing.]

The Riddle of Cantinflas: Essays on Popular Hispanic Culture. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998. [4^th printing; segments translated into German, French, and Spanish. Expanded 15^th Anniversary Edition, 2012]

The Urban Muse: Stories on the American City. New York: Delta, 1998. [4^th printing]

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Poems, Protest and a Dream. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. Introduction by Ilan Stavans. New York and London: Penguin Classics, 1997. “One of the best of 1997,” The Los Angeles Times. [25^th printing; Spanish version, 2012]

The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays. London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

New World: New Latinos Writers. New York: Delta, 1997. [3^rd printing]

Antiheroes. Mexico and Its Detective Novel. Translated from the Spanish by Jennifer Mattson and Jesse H. Lytle. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997.

Masterpieces of Latin American Short Fiction. Novellas by Gabriel García Márquez, João Guimaraes Rosa, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Alvaro Mutis, Felisberto Hernández, et al. Introduced by Ilan Stavans. Edited by Cass Canfield, Jr. New York: HarperCollins, 1996; paperback: Westview, 1997. [Quality paperback selection; 5^th printing.]

Art and Anger: Essays on Politics and the Imagination. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. [Segments translated into German, French, and Spanish. Paperback reprint: Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2001.]

The Uncollected Works of Oscar "Zeta" Acosta. Houston: Arte Público Press, 1996.

Julio Cortázar: A Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996.

The One-Handed Pianist and Other Stories. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. [Segments translated into German, Spanish, and French.] [Paperback, 2007]

Bandido. Oscar 'Zeta' Acosta and the Chicano Experience. New York: HarperCollins, 1995; paperback: IconEditions, 1996. [Paperback reprint: Northwestern University Press, 2003.]

The Hispanic Condition. Reflections on Culture and Identity in America. New York: HarperCollins, 1995; paperback: HarperPerennial, 1996. [15^th printing.] New revised edition in English and Spanish: Rayo/HarperCollins, 2001. Translated, in full or in part, into Japanese, French, and German.

Tropical Synagogues. Short Stories by Jewish-Latin American Writers. Edited and introduced by Ilan Stavans. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1994. [4^th printing. Spanish edition, forthcoming. 2004: 10^th Anniversary Edition.]

Growing up Latino: Memoirs and Stories. Edited with an introduction by Ilan Stavans and Harold Augenbraum. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. [hardcover and paperback; 20^th printing; alternate selection of Quality Paperback Book Club]

Imagining Columbus: The Literary Voyage. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993. [Paperback reprint: Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2001.]

Sentimental Songs/La poesía cursi, by Felipe Alfau. Bilingual edition with an introduction by Ilan Stavans. Naperville, Il.: The Dalkey Archive Press, 1992.

Work translated into Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, English, Polish, and Hebrew. Essays and stories included in over 150 anthologies worldwide.

Recorded Books

Love, Recorded Books, 2015.

The Novel that Invented Modernity: Don Quixote, Recorded Books, 2014.

God: A History, Recorded Books, 2014.

Spanish

Quijote: La novela y el mundo. Translated by Juan Fernando Merino and Patricia Torres Londoño. Bogotá, Colombia: Semana Libros, 2016.

Los mejores sonetos de la lengua castellana. Edited by Ilan Stavans. Chile: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2015.

Gabriel García Márquez: Los años formativos, 1927-1970. Translated by Juan Fernando Merino. Bogotá, Colombia: Taurus/Historia, 2015.

Un amigo desconocido: Conversaciones entre Ilan Stavans y Xiaohai. Soochow, China: Beiyue Literature & Arts Publishing House, 2014.

Saber morir, con Raúl Zurita. Santiago: Editorial Universidad Diego Portales, 2014.

El ojo en la nuca, con Juan Villoro. Barcelona: Anagrama, 2014.

La voz deudora: Conversaciones sobre poesía hispanoamericana, con Miguel-Angel Zapata. Lima, Peru: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2013.

Palabras prestadas: Autobiografía. Traducción de Leticia Barrera. Santiago: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2013.

Lengua Fresca: Antología personal. Santiago: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2012.

¿Qué es la hispanidad? with Iván Jaksic. Santiago: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2011.

Once@9:54am: A Fotonovela with Marcelo Brodsky. Buenos Aires: Asunto Impreso, 2011.

Días de diccionario. Traducción de Verónica Albin. Mexico: UNAM, 2006.

Spanglish para millones. Madrid: Casa de América, 2000.

La condición hispánica. Trans. by Sergio M. Sarmiento. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, Colección Tierra Firme, 1999. [Rayo/HarperCollins, 2001.]

Cuentistas judíos. Edited and with an introduction by Ilan Stavans. Mexico: Editorial Porrúa, 1994.

El alienista y otros cuentos, by Machado de Assis. Introduced by Ilan Stavans. Mexico: Editorial Porrúa, 1994.

Antología de cuentos de misterio y terror. Edited and with an Introduction by Ilan Stavans. Mexico: Editorial Porrúa, 1993.

Caballería roja y Cuentos de Odesa, de Isaac Babel. Introduced by Ilan Stavans. Mexico: Editorial Porrúa, 1994.

La pluma y la máscara. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1993.

Antihéroes. México y su novela policial. Mexico: Joaquín Mortiz, 1993.

La pianista manca. Caracas, Ven.: Alfadil, 1992.

Prontuario: Ensayos. Mexico: Joaquín Mortiz, 1992.

Talia y el cielo. Mexico: Plaza y Valdés, 1989.

Curatorial Work

Anita Brenner: Between Mexico and the United States. Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, 2017.

Once@9:53am. National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, Mass, April-November, 2012.

Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side, co-curated wil Jill Meredith. Mead Musem, Amherst College, 2004.

Miracles and Monsters: Jewish Picture Books Through the Ages, co-curated by Ilan Stavans, with Neal Sokol. Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles and Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts, 2010.

Salpica: Indigenous Visual Artists from Five Countries, El Museo del Barrio in New York and itinerant exhibit in Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Guatemala, 2010.

Contributions

The New Yorker, Foreign Affairs, The Times Literary Supplement, Salon, San Francisco Chronicle, Foreign Affairs, Newsweek, BBC, El País, The New York Times Book Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Village Voice, La Vanguardia, The Independent, The Jewish Quarterly, The New Republic, The Washington Post, The Bloomsbury Review, In These Times, The Nation, Transition, Latin American Art, Michigan Quarterly Review, Translation Review, The American Book Review, Forward, American Literature, Review of Contemporary Fiction, The Massachusetts Review, Salmagundi, TriQuarterly, Utne Reader, The Boston Review, Latin American Theatre Review, Latin American Literary Review, Mester, ArtNews, Review: Latin American Literature and Arts, The Boston Globe, The Hartford Currant, Hispania, The Albuquerque Dispatch, Jerusalem Report, The Americas Review, Diario 16, Hungry Mind Review, Cross Currents, Tikkun, Siempre!, Cuadernos del Norte, Anthropos, Cuban Studies, Linden Lane Magazine, Compass, Jewish Frontier, Revista de la Universidad de México, Nuevo Texto Crítico, World Literature Today, Revista La Torre, Revista Hispánica Moderna, The American Prospect, Plural, Raíces, El Observador, Excélsior, Review, Los Angeles Reader, Sí Magazine, Imagen, El Universal, El Nacional, Modern Fiction Studies, Prooftexts, La Página, Quimera, La Jornada Semanal, El Diario, Names, The Miami Herald, La Opinión, Revista Iberoamericana, Casa del Tiempo, La Nueva España, Commonweal, Science Fiction Studies, Epoca, etc.

AWARDS and HONORS

NeMLA (North East Modern Language Association) Conference Keynote, Johns Hopkins University, 2017.

Arizona and New Mexico Book Awards, The New World Haggadah, Finalist, Poetry & Religion categories, 2016.

Margaret Dalziel Lecture, University of Otago, October 13,2016.

Programa de Apoyo a la Traducción [PROTRAD], Conaculta, Mexico: Grant to Restless Books, $9,560.

PRNDI Award, Words in Transit, 2016.

Distinguished Lecture, Litteraturhuset, Oslo, Sweden, May 19, 2016.

National Award for Arts Writing (aka Marfield Prize), finalist for Quixote: The Novel and the World, 2016.

Robert P. Smith International Scholar at the Roxbury Latin School, 2016-2017.

Strom Distinguished Lecturer in Jewish Studies, University of Washington in Seattle, 2016.

Amherst College Foundation, 2015. $30,000

George J. Summer Lecture, Marist College, 2015.

“Translating the Classics,” Blended Learning Course Award (with Regina Galasso), Five College, Inc., 2015-2016. $25,000.

“On Cesar Chavez,” Vermont Humanities Lecture, Brattleboro, Vermont, 2015.

Annual Lecture, Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston and Hebrew College, Hebrew College, Newton, Massachusetts, 2015.

The Philip S. Bernstein Lecture, Temple B’rith Kodesh, Rochester, New York, 2015.

A Most Imperfect Union: A Contrarian History of the United States, best graphic nonfiction book, 2015 International Latino Book Awards.

A Most Imperfect Union: A Contrarian History of the United States, New York Times Bestseller list, 2014.

“A Most Imperfect Union,” inaugural lecture to commemorate exhibit “Missouri Immigrant Experience,” Missouri History Museum, November 2014.

Third Annual Martin Sosin Keynote Lecture, Society of Crypto-Jewish Studies, Dallas, July 21, 2014.

“Words in Transit”: Copeland Colloquium, Amherst College, 2014-2015. $200,000.

First Annual Visiting Scholar in the Humanities and Judaic Studies, Brooklyn College, 2014.

Frances Haidt Memorial Lecture in Judaic Studies, Brooklyn College, 2014.

Distinguished Writer, Festival de Poesía de Primavera, Lima, Peru, 2013.

Gold Medal, Book of the Year Award for Translation of The Plain in Flames, ForeWorld, 2013.

Mellon Seminar: Caboom!!!, 2013.

Honored Author, China Book Expo, June 2012.

Soochow Institute of Technology, 25^th Soochow Lecture Hall, June 2012.

“Brilliant Minds” Lecture, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, May 2012.

Amherst College Foundation, 2012.

Honored Author, Feria del Libro de Santiago, Chile, 2011.

Humanities Lecture, University of Maryland at Baltimore, October 2011.

Commended Title, Américas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature, 2011.

Amherst College Foundation, 2011.

Skipping Stones Honor Award, 2011.

Southwest Children Book of the Year, 2010.

Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, 2010. $5,000.

Martin and Rona Schneider Lecture, Brooklyn Public Library, 2010.

Amherst College Foundation, 2010. $20,000.

Lily Rosman Lecture, Skirball Cultural Center, CA, 2010.

ForeWord Magazine, Best of the Year Award, Becoming Americans, 2009.

Keynote Address, ALTA Conference, Pasadena, CA, 2009.

Carnegie Distinguished Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin, 2009.

Carnegie Corporation, 2009, $45,000.

Mark Krueger Charitable Trust, 2009, $25,000.

Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation, 2009, $5,000.

H. Axel Schupf, 2009, $5,000.

Martin E. Segal, 2009, $5,000.

U.S. State Department, 2009, $27,000.

Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, 2009, $5,000.

Cesar Chavez Lecture, Hope College, 2009.

Best of Choice, 2009.

Forward 50: Named one of the 50 Most Influential Jews in 2008.

Bloom Lecture, Temple B’nai Abraham, 2008.

U.S. State Department, Project Salpica, 2008. $600,000.

The Doris Duke Foundation, 2008. $10,000.

The Harold Grinspoon Foundation, 2008.

The Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, 2008. $10,000.

Naftulin Family Lecture on Studies in Jewish Identity, UCLA, 2008.

National Endowment for the Arts, 2007, $10,000.

Best of Choice, 2007

Audience Award for Best Comedy, Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival, 2007.

LAHI 20^th Anniversary Award, 2007.

Friends of Amherst College Library, Life Member, 2006.

Grinspoon Foundation, 2006, $3,000.

Meryl Norton Hearst Lecture, University of Northern Iowa, 2006.

Inaugural Prizten Five College 40^th Anniversary Professorship Lecture, 2006.

National Jewish Book Award, 2005.

Rubén Darío Medal and Distinguished Guest of Nicaragua, 2006.

Ytzjak Rabin Lecture, 2005.

Latino Book Award, 2005.

Glyph Award, 2005.

National Endowment for the Humanities, 2005. $10,000.

Commonwealth Humanities Lecture, Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, 2005

Latino Hall of Fame Award, Best Reference Book, Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language, 2004

Presidential Medal of Honor from Chile, 2004.

Emmy Awards, Nomination, Best Talk-Show Host, La Plaza: Conversations with Ilan Stavans, 2004.

Amherst College, 2004.

Curious George Foundation, 2004, $250,000

Pushcart Prize nomination, 2004, for “Lotería: or, The Game of Chance” AGNI.

Antonia Pantoja Award, 2004

The Littauer Foundation, 2003, $5,000

National Endowment for the Humanities, 2003: Isaac Bashevis Singer, $380,000

Amherst College Faculty Research Award, 2003, $20,000

Nominated for the James Russell Lowell Prize, 2003.

Amherst College, 2002.

Pushcart Prize nomination, 2000, for “On My Brother’s Trail.” The Literary Review

Pushcart Prize nomination, 2000, for “Xerox Man.” AGNI

The Littauer Foundation, 2000, $5,000

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2000, $25,000.

Amherst College Faculty Research Awards, 2000, $20,000

Council of Editors of Learned Journals, Best New Journal of 1999, Hopscotch: A Cultural Review, runner-up

Utne Reader, Alternative Press Award for Hopscotch in the Art and Design category, December 1999.

Book-of-the-Month Club, 1999.

Quality Paperback Book Month Selection, 1999.

Amherst College Faculty Research Award, 1999, $20,000

National Foundation for Jewish Culture, 1999, $5,000

Library Journal, nomination of Hopscotch as “one of the 10 best new magazines,” 1999.

Guggenheim Fellowship, 1998-99.

El Nuevo Día Foundation, 1997.

Amherst College, 1997.

The Littauer Foundation, 1996, $5,000

National Book Critics Circle, Nona Balakian Excellence in Reviewing Award, Finalist 1994

The Littauer Foundation, 1994, $5,000

Quality Paperback Book Month Selection, 1994.

Amherst College Faculty Research Award, 1993, $20,000

Bernard M. Baruch Excellence in Scholarship Award, 1993.

The Littauer Foundation, 1992.

Latino Literature Prize, 1992.

National Endowment for the Humanities, 1991-1992, $180,000

Poets & Writers, 1991.

Spain's Ministry of Culture, 1991, $2,000

New York State Council on the Arts, Translation Fellowship, 1989, $5,000

Pluma de Oro Literary Prize, Honorable Mention, 1988

The Jewish Theological Seminary Academic Fellowship, 1984-1986.

Constantiner Fellowship, 1984-1986.

SELECTED LECTURES, READINGS AND SYMPOSIA at Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, Bennington College, Tufts University, Casa de América in Madrid, University of London, Harvard University, Syracuse University, Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley, Cambridge University, Chicago Historical Society, Wellesley College, Smith College, John F. Kennedy Library, University of Texas at Austin, University of Southern California, Barnard College, Hostos Community College, Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico), Manhattan Community College, Cleremont McQueena College, Brown University, Fairleigh Dickinson University, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Duke University, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center (San Antonio), New York Book Fair, Denver Book Festival, Boston College, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Guadalajara Book Fair, The Mercantile Library of New York, Latin American Studies Association, The City University of New York, Municipal Arts Society (New York), Centro Cultural Coyoacán (Mexico), Museo Diego Rivera (Mexico), Ateneo de Caracas (Venezuela), The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, National Public Radio, Univision, Televisa, and special appearances on radio and television.

PUBLISHED INTERVIEWS BY I.S. with Barry Moser, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Barbara Kingsolver, Marjorie Agosín, Nathan Englander, Allegra Goodman, Norman Manea, Felipe Alfau, Isabel Allende, Rubén Blades, Joseph Brodsky, Anita Desai, Morris Dickstein, Ariel Dorfman, Isaac Goldemberg, Oscar Hijuelos, John Leguizamo, Morris Dickstein, Augusto Monterroso, Cynthia Ozick, Fernando del Paso, Elena Poniatowska, Oliver Sacks, Moacyr Scliar, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Piri Thomas, John Updike, et al.

REVIEWS OF WORKS BY I.S. in The New Yorker, The Chronicle of Higher Education, El Nuevo Día, The New York Times Book Review, L.A. Reader, The Sunday Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The (London) Times, The Jewish Chronicle, Tikkun, Latin American Historical Review, The Houston Chronicle, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Booklist, Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus, Latino Book Review, Boston Herald, Newsday, Compass, Revista Hispánica Moderna, Midstream, The Jerusalem Post, Library Journal, The American Book Review, Texas Observer, Mother Jones, World Literature Today, Hadassah, Forward, The Jerusalem Report, Chicago Tribune, Texas Monthly, The Miami Herald, Jewish Weekly, Baltimore Jewish Times, The Star Ledger, etc.

INTERVIEWS WITH I.S. in Newsweek, NPR, PBS, BBC, El País, Clarín, La Nación, The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Radio 13, La Vanguardia, The Washington Post, The Miami Herald, Congress Monthly, Associated Press, The Literary Review, Columbus Dispatch, El Nuevo Día, Shanteh, Forward, Baltimore Jewish Times, Confluencia, L.A. Reader, Compass, Imagen, El Mercurio, Excelsior, Americas, National Public Radio, CUNY-TV, Televisa, El Nacional, Reforma, La Jornada, El Universal, El Papel Literario, Multicultural Review, etc.

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