Arturo Dávila

ARTURO DÁVILA is the Chair of the Department of Modern Languages ​​at Laney College, Oakland, and the founder of the Latinx Cultural Center. He also teaches in the Summer Program in Mexico at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his doctorate in Romance Languages ​​and Literatures. He specializes in colonial literature (Amerindian perspectives on the conquest of Mexico) and contemporary Latin American and Chicano literature. He has received four poetry awards: La ciudad dormida (Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, Mexico, 1995); Catulinarias (Antonio Machado Prize, Spain, 1998); Poemas para ser leídos en el metro (Juan Ramón Jiménez Prize, Spain, 2003); and La cuerda floja (Nicolás Guillén Prize, Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA), 2016). He prepared the anthology and preliminary study for La Tinusa: Latin American Poets in the USA (2016). He is currently researching pre-Hispanic codices and teaches and studies contemporary Spanish and Nahuatl. He has recently published Sátiras (2017), Tantos troncos truncos (2020), and También garganta el mar (2023). His last book of poetry, Futboliada, is on football soccer.