Silvio Torres-Saillant

William P. Tolley Disguished Professor
Editor, New World Studies Series, University of Virginia Press
Associate Editor, Latino Studies

Ph.D., Comparative Literature, New York University, 1991

Office: 310 Tolley, 315-443-9475
Email: saillant@syr.edu

Interests: Caribbean literature, comparative poetics, ethnic American literature, Latino texts, diaspora and migration studies.

I will consider working with dissertation advisees interested in historically grounded topics in intellectual history, comparative poetics, and diasporic citizenship as they are related to Caribbean, ethnic American, trans-American , and Latino literatures.

Grants and Awards
Editorship
Books
Edited Volumes
Book Chapters
Encyclopedia entries/prefaces/introductions/reviews
Journal Essays
Editorial Boards
State Arts Councils/Literature Panels
National and Local Boards
Organizational Work (past four years)
Papers and Lectures (past four years)
Professional Membership
Curriculum Vitae

Grants and Awards

Received $20,000 grant from Syracuse University's College of Arts and Science to help finance a proposal to organize a Ray Smith Symposium entitled "Caribbean Writers Imagine the Millennium" featuring major literary artists and scholars from four linguistic areas in the region. Held April 4, 11, 18, 25, 2001.

Received $76,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation to organize a two-part international conference entitled "Up from the Margins: Diversity as Challenge to the Democratic Nation" sponsored by the Latino-Latin American Studies Program of Syracuse University, the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at City College, other U.S. universities and sister institutions in the Caribbean. Held in New York City on June 22-23 and in Santo Domingo on June 29-30.

Received $20,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation for "The Transnationalization of Everyday Life," a roundtable featuring an international gathering of scholars working on transnational dynamics. Held at City College, CUNY, 25 May 2001.

Received $250,000 award from the Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowships to fund the three-year research project entitled "Representation vs. Experience: Missing Chapters in Dominican History and Culture." Research site housed at the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, City College, from Fall 1996 to Spring 1999.

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Editorship

Guest Editor Review: Literatue and ARts of the Americas 40.1 (May 2007). Issue 74. Special Issue on "Caribbean and Caribbean Diaspora Writing and Arts."

Member of the Senior Editors, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, a 4-volume, 2048-page reference source, Oxford University Press, (2005).

Editor, CUNY's Dominican Research Monographs Series 1995-2000.

Editor, Dominican Studies Working Papers Series 1997-2000.

Guest Editor, Brújula/Compass 28 (1998). Special Issue: "Dominican Writers in the U.S."

Co-editor, Punto 7 Review: A Journal of Marginal Discourse 3.1 (1996). Special issue on "Identity: The Contours of Difference."

Compiler, New Voices in Latin American Literature. Ed. Miguel Falquez Certain. Literature/Conversation Series. Vol. 3. New York: Ollantay Press, 1993.

Co-editor, Punto 7 Review: A Journal of Marginal Discourse 2.2 (1992). Special issue on "Education and Empowerment."

Co-editor, Punto 7 Review: A Journal of Marginal Discourse 2.1 (1989). Special issue entitled "Migration-Migrants: Dominicans in Puerto Rico and the United States."

Editor, Hispanic Immigrant Writers and the Question of Identity. Literature/Conversation Series. Vol. 1. New York: Ollantay Press, 1989.

Editor, Hispanic Immigrant Writers and the Family. Literature/Conversation Series. Vol. 2. New York: Ollantay Press, 1989.

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Books

An Intellectual History of the Caribbean . New Directions on the Americas Series. Palgrave Macmillan/Macmillan Caribbean , 2006.

Caribbean Poetics . Cambridge University Press, 1997.

The Dominican-Americans (with Ramona Hernández). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.

El retorno de las yolas . Santo Domingo: Ediciones Librería La Trinitaria and Editora Manatí, 1999. 

Introduction to Dominican Blackness. Dominican Studies Working Papers Series. New York : CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, City College of New York , 1999.

Diasporic Disquisitions: Dominicanists, Transnationalism, and the Community. Dominican Studies Working Papers Series. New York : CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, City College of New York , 2000.  

El tigueraje intelectual. Santo Domingo: Centro de Información Afroamericano and Editora Manatí, 2002. .

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Edited Volumes

The Challenges of Higher Education in the Hispanic Caribbean . Ed. Maria J. Canino and Silvio Torres-Saillant. Princeton : Markus Wiener Publishers, 2004.

Desde la orilla: Hacia una nacionalidad sin desalojos . Ed. Silvio Torres-Saillant, Ramona Hernandez and Blas Jiménez. Santo Domingo: Ediciones Librería La Trinitaria and Editora Manati, 2004.

Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage . Vol. IV. Ed. Silvio Torres-Saillant and Jose Aranda. Houston : Arte Público, 2002.

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Book Chapters

“Afrolatina/os and the Racial Wall.” A Companion to Latina/o Studies . Ed. Juan Flores and Renato Rosaldo. Malden and Oxford : Blackwell Publishers, 2007. 363-375.

“Towards a New Caribbean Poetics in the 21 st Century.” Reading the Caribbean : Approaches to Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Culture . Ed. Klaus Stierstorfer. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2007. 13-50.  

“Formalismo y credo musical: Introducción a la poesía de Rhina P. Espaillat.” Introduction to Agua de dos ríos . By Rhina P. Espaillat. Santo Domingo : Editora Nacional, 2006. 2-31.

“Caribbean Dirges: Rising Rhythms, Precarious Prospects.” Music, Writing, and Cultural Unity in the Caribbean . Ed. Timothy J. Reiss. Trenton and Asmara : Africa World Press, Inc.: 2005. 367-387.

“Racism in the Americas and the Latino Scholar.” Neither Enemies nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, and Afro-Latinos . Ed. Anani Dzidzienyo and Suzanne Oboler. New York and Houndsmill: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 281-304.

“Dominican Americans.” Multiculturalism in the United States : A Comparative Guide to Acculturation and Ethnicity . Revised and Expanded Edition. Ed. John D. Buenker and Lorman A. Ratner. Westport , Conn. and London : Greenwood Press, 2005. 99-115.

“The Status of Intellectual Authority.” This is What Democracy Looks Like: A New Critical Realism for a Post-Seattle World . Ed. Amy S. Lang and Cecelia Tichi. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2006. 276-284.

“Introduction to Dominican History.” (With Ramona Hernandez). Caribbean Connections : The Dominican Republic . Ed. Anne Gallin, et al. Washington , D. C.: Teaching for Change, 2005. 21-26.

“The Obstacle of Race.” (With Ramona Hernandez). Caribbean Connections: The Dominican Republic . Ed. Anne Gallin, et al. Washington , D.C. : Teaching for Change, 2005. 181-182.

“I am Part of Three Realms…” Interview. Caribbean Connections: The Dominican Republic . Ed. Anne Gallin, et al. Washington , D.C. :Teaching for Change, 2005. 195-198.

“The Limits of Globalization: Higher Education and the Borders that Remain.” The Challenges of Public Higher Education in the Hispanic Caribbean . Ed. Maria J. Canino and Silvio Torres-Saillant. Princeton : Markus Wiener, 2004. 211-226.

“Edward Kamau Brathwaite.” Poetry Criticism . Vol. 56. Ed. Janet Witalec. Detroit : Thompson/Gale, 2004. 78-94.

“The Latino Autobiography” Latino and Latina Writers. 2 Vols. Ed. Alan West. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004. 61-79.

“No no es lo mismo ni se escribe igual: La diversidad en lo dominicano.” Desde la orilla: Hacia una nacionalidad sin desalojos . Ed. Silvio Torres-Saillant, Ramona Hernandez and Blas Jiménez. Santo Domingo: Ediciones Librería La Trinitaria and Editora Manati, 2004. 17-46.

“El Caribe frente al discurso occidental.” El artista caribeno como guerrero de lo imaginario . Ed. Rita De Maeseneer and An Van Hecke. Madrid and Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana and Vervuert, 2004. 181-197.

“La historia sin fin: El Caribe ante el asedio de Occidente.” El Caribe: Un mosaico pluricultural . Ed. Gobierno del Estado de Quintana Roo. Mexico City: Imagen Editorial, 2004. 107-124.

“Dominican Blackness and the Modern World.” Perspectives on Las Americas : A Reader in Culture, History, & Representation. Ed. Matthew C. Gutman, Felix V. Matos Rodriguez, Lynn Stephen, and Patricia Zavella: Malden and Oxford : Blackwell Publishing, 2003. 274-288.

“Problematic Paradigms: Racial Diversity and Corporate Identity in the Latino Community.” Latinos: Remaking America” . Ed. Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco and Mariela M. Paez. California : University of California Press/David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2002. 435-455.

“Introduction: Inscribing Latinos in the National Discourse.” Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage. Vol. 4. Ed. José F. Aranda and Silvio Torres-Saillant. Houston : Arte Público Press, 2002. 1-10.

“The Unity of Caribbean Literature: A Position.” Sisyphus and Eldorado: Magical and other Realisms in Caribbean Literature. Ed. Timothy J. Reiss: Trenton : Africa World Press, 2002. 226-245.  

“Colonial Migration and Theoric Awakening: An Antillean's Voyage of Discovery.” Beyond Home and Exile: Making Sense of Lives on the Move . Ed. Bodil Folke Frederiksen and Ninna Nyberg Sorensen. Roskilde , Denmark : The Graduate School/International Development Studies, Roskilde University , 2002. 190-227.

“Caliban's Betrayal: A New Inquiry Into the Caribbean.” For the Geography of a Soul: Emerging Perspectives on Kamau Brathwaite. Ed. Timothy J. Reiss. Trenton : Africa World Press, 2001. 221-243.

"Before the Diaspora: Early Dominican Literature in the United States ." Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage . Vol. 3. Ed. Maria Herrera Sobek and Virginia Sanchez Korrol. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 2000. 250-267.

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Encyclopedia entries/prefaces/introductions/reviews

“ The Case for a Closer Look: Knowledge in Caribbean Letters.” Latino/a Research Review 6.1-2 (2006-2007): 182-186.

“Essayists.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States . Vol. 2. Ed. Suzanne Oboler and Deena Gonzalez. New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. 72-78.

“Salazar, Ruben.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States . Vol. 4. Ed. Suzanne Oboler and Deena Gonzalez. New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. 53-54.

“Latinos.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States . Vol. 2. Ed. Suzanne Oboler and Deena Gonzalez. New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. 507-510.

“Allende, Isabel.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States . Vol. 1. Ed. Suzanne Oboler and Deena Gonzalez. New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. 161-163.

“Ollantay Center for the Arts.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States . Vol. 3. Ed. Suzanne Oboler and Deena Gonzalez. New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. 300-302.

Rev. of Culture of Empire: American Writers, Mexico . And Mexican Immigrants, 1880 - 1930 . Labor History 45.4 (2004): 550-552.

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Journal Essays

“Pitfalls of Latino Chronologies: South and Central Americans.” Páginas Recuperadas Section. Latino Studies 5.4 (2007): 489-502.

“Lo que la cultura no es.” Hostos Review/Revista Hostosiana 5 (2007): 156-167.

 “Introduction: New Ways of Imagining the Caribbean .” Issue 74 of Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas 40.1 (May 2007): 3-8.

“Political Roots of Chicano Discourse.” Paginas Recuperadas Section. Latino Studies 4.4 (2006): 452-464.

“Blackness and Meaning in Studying Hispaniola : A Review Essay.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 19 (February 2006): 180-188.

“Recovering U.S. Cuban Texts.” Paginas Recuperadas Section. Latino Studies 3.3 (November 2005): 432-442.

“Cultura: actualización de un concepto.” Global: Revista de la Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo . 2.4 (Jan-Mar. 2005): 4-10.

“La dominicanidad cambiante o el meollo de la identidad.” Camino Real: Revista de la Fundacion Juan Bosch 1.1 (June-September 2005): 4-10.

“Changed Times, Similar Tragedies.” Páginas Recuperadas Section. Latino Studies 1.3 (2003): 458-467.

“Periphery of the Margins.” Paginas Recuperadas Section. Latino Studies . 2.3 (2004): 422-428.

“Writing Has to Be Generous: An Interview with Angie Cruz” Calabash: An Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters. 2.2: (Summer/Fall 2003):108-127.

“Inventing the race: Latinos and the Ethnoracial Pentagon” Latino Studies 1.1 (2002):125-151.

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Editorial Boards

Steering Committee, Caribbean Literature Digital Archive, University of Virginia at Charlottesville .

Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate New York

Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, University of Houston, Texas.

The Latino(a) Research Review, SUNY-The University at Albany

OLLANTAY Heritage Center, cultural organization, Queens, New York.

Hostos Review/Revista Hostosiana, Latin American Writers Institute, Hostos Community College, New York.

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State Arts Councils/Literature Panels

Member, Selection Committee, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies, 2006-2008. Appointed Chair for 2007 award to be given in December 2008. 

Member, MLA Delegate Assembly. Elected position. 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2006.

MLA Committee on the Literature of People of Color in the United States and Canada . Co-Chair. 2002-2004.

Chair, Latinos/as in the United States Program Track. 2004 International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association.

Member, Literature Panel, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Baltimore, Maryland. Fall 1997 and Fall 1998.

Member, Literature panel, New York State Council on the Arts. 1991-1994.

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National and Local Boards

Member, Board of Scholarly Advisors, Latino Documentation Program, New York State Archives, Cultural Education Center, Albany, New York.

Member, Board of Advisers, New York Historical Society's exhibition NUEVA YORK, covering 400 years of New York City 's relations with the Spanish-speaking World, to open in 2010.

Member, Scholar Advisory Board, Latino/Hispanic Virtual Research Collection Project, New York State Archives.

Member, Board of Directors of The New York Council for the Humanities. 1999- 2006

Member, Board of Directors of the Dominican-American National Roundtable. 1997-2006

Member, Caribbean, Central America, and Mexico Review Committee, Fulbright Senior Scholars Awards Program, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Washington, D.C. Appointed for a three-year period. Fall 1998-Fall 2000.

Member, Advisory Board, Adult and Continuing Education Program, City College, the City University of New York. 1998 - 2001.

Member, Advisory Board, New York Police Department. Appointed by Commissioner Howard Safir. 1996-2001.

Member, Board of Directors, American Social History Project, Inc. ASHP works on pedagogy, curriculum, and the production of electronic media tools for use in the high school classroom.

Member, Advisory Board, Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, Hunter College, the City University of New York. Appointed by Centro's Steering Committee to help the Centro meet its present challenges and plan its future goals. Fall 1994-1997.

Member, Institutional Resource Center Publications Committee. Office of Academic Affairs, The City University of New York. Appointed by University Dean Elsa Núñez-Wormack to assess the IRC's publications to determine their impact on the University community. 1994-1995.

Member, Manhattan Borough President's Latino Advisory Group. Appointed by the Honorable Ruth Messinger to advise her office on the most pressing issues affecting the Latino community. 1993-1997.

Member, Selection Committee, Caribbean 2000, a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowships Program housed at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. Evaluated proposals on March 14-17, 1995, during the program's first year.

Member, New York State Assembly's Task Force on New Americans. Appointed by the Honorable John Brian Murtaugh to advise the Task Force chair on issues affecting new Latino immigrants in the State of New York. 1994-1996.

Member, Executive Committee, CUNY-Caribbean Exchange Program. Appointed to amplify the cross-cultural reach of the Program to the entire Caribbean area and to assist in the evaluation of research proposals seeking funds from the Program. 1992-1996.

Member, Latino Commission on Educational Reform. Appointed by New York City Board of Education President to suggest changes in policy, budget, and implementation so as to enhance the education available to Latinos in the public schools of the City of New York. 1993-1998.

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Organizational Work (past four years)

Co-sponsored “Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics Faculty Colloquium,” to celebrate the research of recently recruited faculty (Latin American literary scholar Alicia Rios, Francophone literature scholar Jean Jonassaint, linguist Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, and Latino and Caribbean literature specialist Myrna Garcia Calderon), coordinated by the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, 27 April 2007.

Coordinated the first season of the”Tuesday Humanities Coffee Hour,” a thirteen-part weekly series of informal conversations convened to discuss issues of pressing intellectual and artistic concern though a reflection on the works of colleagues from inside and outside of the campus, held at the Tolley Library, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, from 30 January to 1 May 2007.

Coordinated the lecture “Building the Box to Dance In: The Body's Movement and the Sources of Poetic Form,” delivered by Rhina P. Espaillat, the English Department's 2006 Stephen Crane Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Dikaia Foundation, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, 26 October 2006.

Coordinated a “Cross-Lingual Choral Poetry” performance featuring students from the Multicultural Living and Learning Community as part of the Celebration of the Humanities to dedicate Tolley Humanities Building , Syracuse University , Syracuse , New York , 6 October 2006.

Sponsored the day-long symposium “Rethinking Puerto Rican Studies,” featuring 9 leading scholars from universities across the United States and Puerto Rico to to assess the state of knowledge in the field, in collaboration with the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics as well as University College, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, 4 October 2006.

Coordinated the recital “Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican Boleros,” featuring soprano Thelma Ithier-Sterling and pianist/composer Raymond Torres-Santiago, in collaboration with the Onondaga County Public Library and Syracuse University's University College, with the financial support of The Gifford Foundation, held at the Mundy Branch Library, Syracuse, New York, 23 September 2006.

Coordinated the literary reading “Dominican-American Women Writers and Their Works,” featuring fiction writer Annecy Baez and performance poet Josefina Baez, in collaboration with the Onondaga County Public Library and Syracuse University's University College, with the financial support of The Gifford Foundation, held at the Mundy Branch Library, Syracuse, New York, 16 September 2006.

Sponsored the lecture “Sobre dominicanos y puertorriqueños: movimiento perpetuo,” by Rita De Maeseneer, Professor of Hispanic Literatures, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium, in collaboration with the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, 18 April 2006.

Coordinated reading and conversation by Edward Baugh, distinguished Jamaican poet and scholar, in collaboration with the African American Studies Department, Syracuse University , Syracuse , New York , 17 February 2006.

Curated the reading series “Caribbean Authors Series” in Fall 2005 at the Brooklyn Public Library featuring Myriam J. A. Chancy (24 September), Egardo Vega Yunque (15 October), Angie Cruz (19 November), and Pamela Mordecai (3 December) at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York.

Organized the day-long colloquium “Haitian Letters and Visions of the Future” featuring prominent scholars and writers Jean Jonassaint, Carrol Coates, Rachelle Charlier Doucet, Maximilien Laroche, Myriam J. A. Chancy, and Dany Laferriere, at Syracuse University, 23 September 2005.

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Papers and Lectures (past four years)

“Fraudulent Remembering: Solange Pierre, Colonial Memory, the Caribbean .” Invited paper, VIII International Caribbean Studies Seminar: “Diasporas y Memorias en el Caribe.” International Institute for Caribbean Studies, Universidad de Cartagena, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 30 July-3 August 2007.

“Literary Joaquin Murieta: South America and California Meet.” Invited remarks at panel on pan-Hemispheric Approaches to American Literature. Summer Institute on the Future of Minority Studies. Cornell University . Ithaca, New York, 27-28 July 2007.

“Diaspora as the Norm: The Itinerancy of Home in Caribbean Life.” Invited paper presented at the conference “Mapping the Paths of Culture: Circulation of Knowledge and Cultural Practices in the Caribbean and Its Diaspora.” Institute of Latin American Studies, Freie Universitat, Berlin. 19-22 July 2007.

“Loyalty to the State vs. the Population.” Paper presented in Panel L11: “Nación, memoria y ciudadanía en el Caribe.” 32 nd Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, 28 May-1 June 2007.

“ Haiti , the Caribbean , the World.” Invited presentation on the occasion of the launching of issue 74 of Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas , held at The Americas Society, New York City, 17 May 2007.

“Diasporic Musings: Haiti , the World, and Caribbean Mediations.“ Keynote Address at the day-long conference “Focus on Haiti ,” coordinated by the African Diaspora Area Group, English Department, University of Maryland, College Park, 25 April 2007.

“The Jewish Chapter of Caribbean Diversity.” Invited panel presentation at the day-long multidisciplinary conference “The Jewish Diaspora in Latin American and the Caribbean .” Organized by the Latin American Writers Institute and the Division of Academic Affairs, Hostos Community College, City University of New York, 17 April 2007.

“Thinking the Caribbean : A Cross-Lingual Intellectual History.” Invited Paper at the Inaugural Session of the 3-day conference “Towards a New History of Latin American and Caribbean Intellectuals,” co-sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies and other academic units, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 12-14 April 2007.

“Itinerant Cultures: The Diasporic Imperative in Caribbean Life.” Invited Paper in the Bacardi Distinguished Lecture Series, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, 19 March 2007.

“The Caribbean and the Modern World.” Distinguished Professor Series, Vero Beach Museum of Arts, Vero Beach, Florida, 24 January 2007.

“The International in Us.” Invited talk as part of the Panel “Experiencing the International” within International Education Week organized by SU Abroad. Syracuse University, New York, 15 November 2006.

“The Discomfort of Diversity.” Public lecture delivered as part of the “talk2me2knowme” campus-wide dialogue sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Multicultural Living and Learning Community. Syracuse University, New York, 8 November 2006.

“Ways of Being American: The Poetry of Rhina P. Espaillat.” Lecture delivered under the auspices of the Puerto Rican/Latin American Studies Department, the Provost Office, and the Sociology Department at The John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, 7 November 2006.

“An Intra-Ethnic Assessment of US Hispanic Cultural Recovery.” Talk given as part of a Plenary Session in the Western Historical Association Conference, held in Saint Louis, Missouri, 11-15 October 2006.

“Formalism and Musical Creed in the Poetry of Rhina P. Espaillat.” Keynote Address a the First New York Dominican Book Fair, sponsored by the Dominican Commissioner of Culture in the United States, an overseas branch of the Dominican Reoublic's Ministry of Culture. Held at Public School #8, Manhattan, New York City, 7 October 2006.

“Knowing the World.” Lecture delivered before a gathering of alumni during Reunion Weekend. Sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, 3 June 2006.

“Unbinding Disciplines, Decentering Bodies of Knowledge.” Talk given as part of the inaugural panel in the Tolley Conference on Teaching in the Humanities. Held at the Syracuse University Minnowbrook Center, Blue Mountain Lake, New York, 19-21 May 2006.

“Opening Remarks,” “Words for Rhina P. Espaillat,” and “Commentary” on a panel on Dominican Racial Identity. Invite for three speaking roles in First International Dominican Studies Conference. Held at Hostos Community College, The City University of New York, Bronx, New York, 12-13 May 2006.

“Blackness in a Dominican Context.” Talk delivered as part of the panel “African Beat, Caribbean Echoes.” Held at the Headquarters of the National of La Raza under the auspices of the Inter-American Foundation, Washington, D. C., 11 May 2006.

“Obstacles to Knowing the Caribbean .” Keynote Address sponsored by the Caribbean Studies Group, Michigan State University, Ann Arbor, 12 April 2006.

“Diaspora and Dictatorship: Remembering Trujillo at Home and Abroad.” Paper presented at the conference “Requiem for Trujillo” to reflect on the novel The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa, under the auspices of the Hispanic/Latino Cultural Center and the Instituto Cervantes, SUNY Old Westbury, 7 April 2006.

“Latinos, Blackness, and the Racial Imaginary.” Panel presentation sponsored by the Afro-Latino Project. Held at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, Manhattan, New York, 1 April 2006.

“The Transnationalism of Past Centuries.” Paper presented as part of the Institute for Latino Studies' Hispanic Caribbean Studies Lecture Series, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, 28 March 2006.

“Unequal Cultural Exchange in the Transnational Field.” Talk given as part of the roundtable on “Literature and Writing” within the “Expressive Arts Ray Smith Symposium” organized by the Department of African American Studies at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, 24-25 March 2006.

“The Politics of Imagining the Caribbean and the Ancestral Homeland.” Lecture delivered as part of the Criole Speakers Series, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, 20 March 2006.

“Models of Intellectual Success and Critical Scholarship.” Presentation in panel on Academic Excellence and Commitment to Social Change at the 26 th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 15 March 2006.

“The Challenge of Redefining the Yet Undefined.” Presentation in the Plenary Session on Redefining the Caribbean, at the 26 th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 16 March 2006.

“Knowing the Caribbean World.” Lecture delivered under the auspices of the Watson Institute, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1 March 2006.

“ Caribbean Transnationality and the Crisis of Citizenship.” Lecture delivered under the auspices of the New World Studies Group, Rice University Houston, Texas, 2 February 2006.

“Afro-Latinos and the Racial Wall.” Lecture delivered under the auspices of the Hispanic Studies Committee, Rice University , Houston, Texas, 1 February 2006.

“Problematic Citizens: The Dual Political Terrain of the Caribbean Diaspora.” David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 6 December 2005.

“Problematic Citizenship in the Antillean World.” The Multiple Caribbean : A Colloquium in Honor of Antonio Benitez-Rojo. University of Massacusetts-Amherst/Amherst College. 5 November 2005.

“Surviving Exclusionary Structures in Graduate School .” Keynote Address to the 22 nd Annual Seminar for Underrepresented Students. State University of New York at Oswego, 1 November 2005.

“Lo que la cultura no es.” (Lecture hosted by the Ministry of Culture) Sala Santiago Federico Izquierdo, Palacio Consistorial, Santiado de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, 27 October 2005.

“Los viajes de la dominicanidad: Diaspora, frontera y nacion.” (Lecture hosted by the Ministry of Culture). Biblioteca Nacional, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 28 October 2005.

“Introduction: About Isabel Allende.” Stories and Dreams: An Evening with Isabel Allende. Milton First-Year Lecture, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University, 10 October 2005.

“The Definition of ‘Latinos' in the United States .” CBT 8: Eighth Triennial Reunion of African American and Latino Alumni and Students. Syracuse University , Syracuse, New York , 16 September 2005.

“The Resilience of Race,” remarks during panel on Life on the Color Line by Gregory H. Williams, sponsored by the Shared Reading Program, Office of Academic Affairs, Syracuse University, 25 August 2005.

“On Reading Paula: A Memoir and My Invented Country by Isabel Allende,” workshop sponsored by the First-Year Forum, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University, 23 August 2005.

“Diasporic Figurations of the Nation in the Caribbean .” During 7 th Biennial Seminar of the International Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of Cartagena, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 1-5 August 2005.

“Borderless Patriotism and Pre-national Post-nationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean Independence Movement.” Presentation at closing Panel of the NEH Summer Seminar on Hostos and Marti in New York , Hostos Community College , CUNY, Bronx , New York , 21 July 2005.

“Transnationalism and Inexorable Globality in 19 th -Centtury Caribbean Thought.” Keynote Address at NEH Summer Seminar on Hostos and Marti in New York, Hostos Community College, CUNY, Bronx, New York, 13 July 2005.

“Labeling Communities: Discordant Paradigms in the Study of Dominicans.” Paper in Plenary IV, Repensar el transnacionalismo: La diaspora dominicana en los Estados Unidos, Puerto Rico y Espana. 30 th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, Hotel Quinto Centenario, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2 June 2005.

“The Lure of Representing Caribbean Totalities.” Commentary as Discussant to Panel E-1, Current Debates in Caribbean Studies: Recent Publications I, 30 th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, Hotel Quinto Centenario, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1 June 2005.

“La condicion diasporica.” Keynote Address during VIII International Book Fair-Santo Domingo 2005, Teatro Nacional, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 30 April 2005.

“Dominicans and Haitians in Historical Perspective.” Paper in Panel: Haiti 's Unfinished Revolution. Brooklyn Public Library with the sponsorship of the Center for French and Francophone Studies of Columbia University, 21 November 2004.

“Academic Contradictions: Scholarly Legitimation and Social Relevance.” Paper at the Biennial Conference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 21-23 October 2004.

“Conflicting Temptations in the Latino Autobiography.” Talk sponsored by the English Department, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 9 March 2004.

“Approaching the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands in its Caribbean Context,” Seminar sponsored by the Latino Studies Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 12 March 2004.

“Francophilia and Identity in the Dominican Intelligentsia.” Cultural Encounters in the Caribbean: Cuba , Haiti , and Santo Domingo . The Graduate Center of The City University of New York . 23 April 2004.

“On the Antiquity of the Global City.” Latinos in the Global City. DePaul University , Chicago, Illinois . 6-7 May 2004.

“Can a Prestigious Scholarly Journal also Be Socially Relevant?” XXV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association. Las Vegas, Nevada . 7-9 October 2004.

“Neruda's San Francisco : Hispanics in the Gold Rush.” NERUDA EN EL CORAZON- Commemoration of the Centennial of Pablo Neruda: A Poet Laureate of the Americas 1904-2004. Hostos Community College of the City University of New York. 22-23 September 2004.

“Challenges of Dominican Leadership.” VII Annual Conference of the Dominican American National Roundtable. The City College of New York , CUNY. 17-19 2004.

“Diaspora e Identidad Cultural.” Fundacion Global Democracia y Desarrollo. Santo Domingo , Dominican Republic . 11 September 2004.

“Here with a Vengeance: Fractious Memory and Achieved Citizenship.” Lecture sponsored by the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. The Pennsylvania State University , University Park , 29 April 2004.

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