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Office Hours: Stories and Worlds with Professor Ilan Stavans

Hosts Briana Bao ’28 and Rita Xing ’28 have a delightful conversation with Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture Ilan Stavans to discuss his academic and personal journey navigating the worlds of Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew, and English.

In this episode, Briana Bao ’28 and Rita Xing ’28 sit down together with Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture Ilan Stavans to discuss his academic journey, language learning, and teaching experience at Amherst College. He offers insights into his work on “Spanglish” as a curious linguistic phenomenon as well as his other career exploration as a TedEd storyteller and as the founder and publisher of Restless Books. Additionally, he discusses his profound interests in Hispanic literature, namely “Don Quixote” and “One Hundred Years of Solitude.”

Episode notes and further reading here.

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Office Hours: Stories and Worlds with Professor Ilan Stavans

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