Roberto González Echevarría, Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literatures, serves as chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. A native of Cuba, he has authored, coauthored or edited more than 15 books, including studies of Calderón, Carpentier, Neruda, and Sarduy. He coedited the three-volume Cambridge History of Latin American Literature and edited the recently published Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories.