Eduardo Ledesma

Eduardo Ledesma is an Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where his research focuses on 20th- and 21st-century Latin American and Iberian literature, culture, film, and new media. He was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1972 and moved to Chicago in 1984; after a decade as a structural engineer, he became a scholar of literature, film, and new media.