Luis Leal

Professor Emeritus (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana), now Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His extensive published works have been compiled in "Luis Leal: A Bibliography with Interpretative and Critical Essays" (1988). Among his most recent books are "Aztlan y Mexico and No Longer Voiceless" (1995). In 1991 he received the Aztec Eagle from the Mexican Government and in 1997, the National Humanities Medal from President Clinton. In 1988, he was made a member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengual Espanola, and also a corresponding member of the Academia Espanola.

 
Professor Leal's research interests are centered around the history of Chicanas/os and Latinas/os writers. He has studied the authorship of the first novel published in Spanish in the United States (Jicotencal, Philadelphia, 1826), and the literature about Joaquin Murrieta. 

In association with Professor Victor Fuentes, Professor of Spanish at Portuguese at UCSB, he edits the literary periodical, Ventana Abierta: Revista latina de Literatura, Arte y Cultura. This publication is sponsored by the Center of Chicano Studies, UCSB. Professor Leal teaches classes in the Department of Chicano Studies at UCSB and is an ex oficio member of the Center for Chicano Studies Advisory Committee.

CUENTOS DE LA REVOLUCIÓN. México: SEP-UNAM, 2003. 172 pp. (Anthology of short stories of the Mexican Revolution published by the National University of Mexico and Mexicos's Secretary of Edution and distributed free to all the High Schools. Not for sale to the public).
Presentación.:Puentes: revista mexico/chicana.de liteatura, cultura y arte.. Primavera, 2003.pp. 11-13. Prólogo a Kattán Zablá, Jorge. Pecados y pecadillos. Cuentos. ElSalvador, Ca., 2003. 131 pp.

La cabeza reduida de Pancho Villa. Nerter. Nos. 5-6 (Primavera-Verano, 2003): 12-13.

Apuntes para el estudio del temprano cuento latino. Ventana Abierta 4.15 (Otoño 2003): 5-9

Notas para la historia de la literatura latina en los Estados Unidos. Ventana Abierta16-17 2004):: 10-15. with Víctor Fuentes, Antología de cuentos chicanos. (Num. 15 of Ventana Abierta, 3003) with Víctor Fuentes, Breve antología del siglo XIX (Nuns. 16-17 of Ventana Abierta, (2004)

 

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