Ricardo L. Ortiz directs the Master’s Program in Engaged and Public Humanities at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, where he is also a professor of US Latinx Literature in the Department of English. In 2022 he served as President of the Association of Departments of English within the Modern Language Association; he also served as Chair of Georgetown’s English Department from 2015 to 2021, and its English MA Program from 2008 to 2014. Prof. Ortiz’s most recent book, Latinx Literature Now: Between Evanescence and Event, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019.