Professor Stavans will be speaking about “Borges and the Jews” over Zoom. Participants will be capped at 20.

Watch the Talk Here

About Professor Stavans

Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College.

Stavans is an expert on, among other topics, Jorge Luis Borges and has written a short book titled "Borges, the Jew."

Stavans is also the publisher of Restless Books, the co-founder of Great Books Summer Program at Amherst, Stanford, and Oxford, and the host of NPR's podcast In Contrast. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, his recent books include Quixote: The Novel and the World (2015), The Seventh Heaven: Travels through Jewish Latin America (2019), How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish (2020), and Selected Translations: Poems 2000-2020 (2021).

His work, translated into twenty languages, has been adapted into film, radio, TV, and the theater.