Rhonda Dahl Buchanan

Rhonda Dahl Buchanan is a professor of Spanish and the director of the department of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of Louisville. She is the author of numerous critical studies on contemporary Latin American writers, and her translations have appeared in many journals and books. In 2004 she won an award to participate in a residency program at the International Banff Centre for Literary Translation, and in 2006 she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship to translate Alberto Ruy-Sánchez’s novel Los jardines secretos de Mogador. (Photo credit: University of Louisville)