Dr. Nicolás Kanellos  
 Founder and Director of Arte Público Press  
 Brown Foundation Professor of Hispanic Literature  

  Nicolás Kanellos is the Brown Foundation Professor of Spanish at the University of Houston. He is founding publisher of the noted Hispanic literary journal The Americas Review (formerly Revista Chicano-Riqueña) and the nation’s oldest and most esteemed Hispanic publishing house, Arte Público Press. Arte Público Press is the largest, non-profit publisher of literature of the United States.

  Recognized for scholarly achievements, Dr. Kanellos is the recipient of the 1996 Denali Press Award of the American Library Association, the 1989 American Book Award—Publisher/Editor Category, the 1989 award from the Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education, the 1988 Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature presented by the White House, as well as various fellowships and other recognitions. His monograph, A History of Hispanic Theater in the United States: Origins to 1940 (1990), received three book awards, including that of the southwest Council on Latin American Studies.

  Among his other books are Thirty Million Strong: Reclaiming the Hispanic Image in American Culture (1997), Biographical Dictionary of Hispanic Literature of the United States (1989), Mexican American Theater: Legacy and Reality (1987), and the Hispanic-American Almanac (1993), which won an American Library Association’s Reference and Adult Services Division (RASD) award for outstanding reference source of the year.

  Dr. Kanellos is the director of a major national research program, Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage of the United States, whose objective is to identify, preserve, study, and make accessible tens of thousands of literary documents of those regions that have become the United States from the colonial period to 1960. In 1994, President Bill Clinton appointed Dr. Kanellos to the National council on the Humanities.

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