Luis, William

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LUIS, William

LUIS, William. American, b. 1948. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, lecturer, 1979-80, assistant professor, 1980-85, associate professor, 1985-88; State University of New York at Binghamton, visiting associate professor, 1988-89, associate professor, 1989-91, acting director of Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program, 1988-89, director, 1989-90; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, member of Latin American and Iberian Studies Program, 1991-, associate professor, 1991-96, professor, 1996-; Washington University, St. Louis, MO, visiting associate professor, 1988; Yale University, visiting professor, 1998. Publications: Literary Bondage: Slavery in Cuban Narrative, 1990; Dance between Two Cultures: Latino-Caribbean Literature Written in the United States, 1997; Culture and Customs of Cuba, 2001; Lunes de Revolucion: Literatura y cultura en los primeros anos de la Revolucion Cubana, 2003. EDITOR: (with E. Desnoes) Los Dispositivos en la Flor, 1981; (and contrib) Voices from Under: Black Narrative in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1984; (with J. Rodriguez-Luis, and contrib) Translating Latin America: Culture as Text, 1991; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 113: Modern Latin American Fiction Writers, First Series, 1992; (with A. Gonzalez) Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 145: Modern Latin American Fiction Writers, Second Series, 1994. Contributor to books. Contributor of articles and reviews to professional journals. Address: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 302 Furman Hall, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]