Kirsten Silva Gruesz

Kirsten Silva Gruesz is a professor of literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing (Princeton, N.J., 2001) and most recently Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas (Cambridge, Mass., 2022), as well as over two dozen essays on Spanish-language print culture in the US, poetry and translation, and Latina/o/x literatures from the perspective of hemispheric history.