{"id":1577,"date":"2020-07-16T13:47:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T18:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=1577"},"modified":"2020-09-29T12:27:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T17:27:11","slug":"ilan-stavans","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/speaker\/ilan-stavans\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilan Stavans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ilan Stavans is one of today\u2019s preeminent essayists, cultural critics, and translators. He is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture and Five College-Fortieth Anniversary Professor at Amherst College. A native from Mexico, Dr. Stavans received his Doctorate in Latin American Literature from Columbia University. Stavans\u2019 books include The Hispanic Condition (HarperCollins, 1995), On Borrowed Words (Viking, 2001), Spanglish (HarperCollins, 2003), Dictionary Days (Graywolf, 2005), The Disappearance (TriQuarterly, 2006), Love and Language (Yale, 2007), Resurrecting Hebrew (Nextbook, 2008), Mr. Spic Goes to Washington (Soft Skull, 2008), and Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez: The Early Years (Palgrave, 2010). Most recently, Dr. Stavans published a book-long poem The Wall, which won the Massachusetts Book Award and other prizes. He has also published: Latino USA: A Cartoon History.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1716,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-1577","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College","speaker_last_name":"Stavans","speaker_classification":["Featured Guests"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/1577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/1577\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}