An important contribution that offers crucial insights to university life in the contemporary United States (from the 1980s to today) through extensive interviews that reveal the trajectory of Latin American Studies and by extension Hispanic studies in the United States from the early 1980s to the present.

The author converses with five noted scholars who have done important academic work in the United States since the 1980s. The conversations address academic agendas and university life dilemmas in the vicinity of the signs 'Latin' and 'Hispanic' in the United States. The volume addresses Spanish / English relations, literature and culture, history and theory (post-colonial, subaltern, etc.).