Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author, editor, and translator of numerous books, including Reclaiming Travel, also published by Duke University Press.¿Adál Maldonado is a visual, performance, installation, and video artist, ¿playwright, ¿cofounder of the first all-artist political party in Puerto Rico, the recipient of a Pollock-Krassner Fellowship, ¿and the author of several books, including Out of Focus Nuyoricans.