Luisa Campuzano Sentí

Bachelor's degree in Classical Literature and Doctor of Philology.

Instructor (graduated 1966) and Full Professor of the Faculty of Arts and Letters and member of the Scientific Council of the University of La Habana from 1977 until her retirement in 2000.

She founded and has directed since 1994 the Program of Women's Studies at Casa de las Américas, where she was in charge of the Center for Literary Research and coordinated the Casa de las Américas Literary Prize from 1987 to 1994.

Since 1998 she has directed the journal Revolución y Cultura, and since 2008 she has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Alejo Carpentier Foundation.

She was editorial secretary of the Journal of the National Library "José Martí" and director of the journal Universidad de La Habana. She is a member of the editorial board of the journals Casa de las Américas, Unión, Universidad de La Habana, Nomadías (Chile), Praesentia (Venezuela), Caligramas (Brasil), Altre Modernità (Italia), Corrientes (Norway), among others. Member of the advisory board of the Spanish Association for Research on the History of Women; of the advisory board of the Laya collection, Almudayna Cultural Association, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; and of the Editorial Committee of Alternativas, CIFEM, Universidad de Oviedo.

She is a member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba since 1984, of the Cuban Program of the Social Science Research Council and co-president of the Standing Committee on Cuban Libraries and Archives of SSRC, since 2000.

She has published the following books:

University textbooks
Rome and Latin Letters (in collaboration with V. Antuña), 1972, 1st ed.;
Latin Comedy (in collaboration with V. Antuña), 1972, 1st ed.;
Introduction to Latin, 1976, 1st ed.;
Selection of Latin Authors, 1982;
History of Latin Literature, from the Origins to the Principate of Augustus (in collaboration with V. Antuña), 1987 and 1991.

Books on classical literatures:
Brief Sketch of Pre-Platonic Poetics (La Habana: Arte y Literatura, 1980)
Literary Ideas in the Satyricon (La Habana: Letras Cubanas, 1984, Critic's Prize).

Books on Cuban and Latin American literature:
Chiron or Essay and Other Events (La Habana: Letras Cubanas, 1988)
Carpentier Then and Now (La Habana: Letras Cubanas, 1997).
The Casa de las Américas Journal: A Continental Project (co-authored with Ambrosio Fornet). La Habana: Centro Juan Marinello, 2001.
The Girls of La Habana Have No Forgiveness from God (La Habana: Unión, 2004, Critic's Prize),
Narcissus and Echo. Classical Tradition and Latin American Literature (Buenos Aires: La Bohemia, 2006).

Compiled (or edited) and prefaced books:
Latin American Women: History and Culture. Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries, 2 vols. (México-La Habana: UAM-I/Casa de las Américas, 1997)
Aurelia Castillo de González. Letters from Mexico (México: Redacta, 1997).
Latin American Women of the Twentieth Century: History and Culture. 2 vols. (México-La Habana: UAM-I/Casa de las Américas, 1998-1999)
"The Sun in the Snow": Julián del Casal 1863-1893 (La Habana: Casa de las Américas, 1999).
I with My Liveliness: Texts by Conquerors, Nuns, Witches, Poets and Other Women of the Colonial Period (in collaboration with Catherine Vallejo, Montreal-La Habana: Concordia University/Casa de las Américas, 2003),
Alejo Carpentier: Here and There (Pittsburgh: International Institute of Iberoamerican Literature, 2007, Antonio Cornejo Polar series, 5).

She is the author of more than one hundred prefaces, articles and essays published in books and journals.

She has been a visiting professor at the following universities: Université de Paris VIII (1985-86), Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana‑Iztapalapa, México (1994, 2006); Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México (1994, 1996, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009); Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro (1995); Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói (1997, 2002); Universidad de Oviedo (1999, 2008, 2009); Università degli Studi di Verona (2000 and 2006); Universität Antwerpen, Belgium (2000 and 2008); Stanford University, United States (2001); Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre (2002) and Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá (2006).

She has taught short postgraduate, master's and doctoral courses at: Universidad Nacional Pedagógica, Bogotá (1995); Instituto Caro y Cuervo, Bogotá (1995); Universidade de São Paulo (1995), Universidad de Extremadura (1996 and 1998), Universidad de Monterrey (2002), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (2002), Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul (2002), Universidad de Valencia (2004).

And she has given lectures at twenty other universities in Europe, Latin America, the United States and Canada.

She has participated as a speaker in more than one hundred national and international conferences, many of which she has (co)organized.

She has received grants for research and postdoctoral studies. She has served as a judge for national and international prizes. She has received the Distinction for Cuban Culture, the Distinction for National Education, the "José Tey" Medal, the "Frank País" Order, the "Carlos J. Finlay" Order, the Prize for Latinity from Unión Latina and the Medal from the Association of Women for Diversity, from Buenos Aires; as well as the Critic's Prize in 1985 and 2004.

Her research topics are Images and Literature of Women in Cuba, Twentieth-Century Spanish American Female Narrators, Alejo Carpentier, Nineteenth-Century Spanish American Travelers, Spanish American Testimony, and Classical Tradition in Spanish American Literature.