Deborah Cohn is provost professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University Bloomington. She is the author of The Latin American Literary Boom and U.S. Nationalism during the Cold War (Vanderbilt UP) and History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction (Vanderbilt UP), as well as coeditor, with Hilary Kahn, of International Education at the Crossroads (Indiana UP), and, with Jon Smith, of Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies (Duke UP). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Archive Center, the American Philosophical Society, and the Harry Ransom Center, among other sources. Her areas of research include cold war cultural diplomacy, especially in relation to the use in the U.S. of academic disciplines such as American studies and language study as means of bolstering the U.S. national interest. She is a Fellow of Salzburg Global.