Visiting Professor
5225 Dwinelle Hall
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Office Hours: T, Th 5-6 pm
ARTURO DÁVILA S. is Chair of the Department of Modern Languages at Laney College in Oakland, California. He specializes in contemporary Latin American poetry and Colonial Literature (The Conquest of Mexico). He is poet laureate in Spain and Mexico where he won the following prizes for his books: La ciudad dormida (“Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz” Prize, México, 1995), Catulinarias ("Antonio Machado" Prize, Spain, 1998), Poemas para ser leídos en el Metro (“Juan Ramón Jiménez” Prize, Spain, 2003), La cuerda floja (“Nicolás Guillén” Prize, Caribbean Philosophical Association -CPA, 2015). Some other publications include Alfonso Reyes entre nosotros (UANL, 2010), an extensive prologue on poems by the same author, Homero en Cuernavaca (2014), and the anthology La Tinusa. Poetas latinoamericanos in the USA (AldusSecretaría de Cultura, 2016), Sátiras (Hiperión, Spain, 2017), and more recently Tantos troncos truncos (Casa Vacía, 2020), and También garganta el mar (Casa Vacía, 2023). He has published many scholarly and journalistic articles on global Hispanic-Latin American literatures and cultural production. Currently, he is compiling a second anthology of 21st-century Latin American poets living in the United Sates and researching pre-Hispanic codices and re-visions of the conquest of Mexico.
