Donald Leslie Shaw (February 11, 1930 – January 30, 2017 in Italy) was a writer, literary critic, and the Brown-Forman Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of Virginia.
Shaw resided in Italy and would spend each academic semester in Charlottesville, Virginia.
He authored several books, including A Literary History of Spain: The Nineteenth Century and A companion to modern Spanish American fiction Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK; Rochester, N.Y.: Tamesis, 2002.
He wrote extensively on, and taught a course about, Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
Donald Leslie Shaw died on January 30, 2017, in Bologna, Italy.