Silvio Torres-Saillant

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.

EDITORSHIP

The Challenges of Higher Education in the Hispanic Caribbean. Ed. Maria J. Canino and Silvio Torres-Saillant. Under evaluation by Ian Randle Publishers.

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

Member of the Senior Editors, The Encyclopedia of Latinos and

Latinas in the United States, a 4-volume, 2048-page reference source, Oxford University Press, (forthcoming).

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.

PUBLICATIONS

I. Books

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.

II. Ongoing Research

Continued work on An Anthology of Latino Literature proposed to Oxford University Press.

The Endless History: The Caribbean and Western Human Sciences. (Manuscript in progress)

Latino Discourse: Hispanic Ethnicities and the Contours of Americanness (book-length study).

Literature of the New American: Writings of the Caribbean Diaspora in the United States (book-length study).

III. Book chapters

"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, Inc., 2001. pp. 221-243.

"Latino Poetics: Toward a Panethnic Tabulation of US Hispanic Texts." Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage. Vol. V. Ed. Lugo-Ortiz, Agnes, and Kenya Dworkin. Houston: Arte Publico, forthcoming.

"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.

"La traición de Calibán: Hacia una nueva indagación de la cultura caribenã." Roberto Fernández Retamar y los estudios latinamericanos. Ed. Elzbieta Sklodoswska and Ben Heller. Serie Críticas. Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2000. 21-54.

"Situación legal, política, cultural y socioeconómica de los/as immigrantes in los Estados Unidos." El nombre y la nacionalidad como símbolo de la existencia. Ed. MUDHA. Santo Domingo: Movimiento de Mujeres Dominico-Haitianas, 2000. 25-36.

"Problematic Paradigms:Racial Diversity and Corporate Identity in the Latino Community." Latinos: Remaking America. Ed. Marcelo Suarez-Orozco. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and Oxford:University of California Press, forthcoming.

"Caliban Revisited:The Trauma of History in Caribbean Literature and Culture." Literature, Music, and Caribbean Unity Ed. Timothy J. Reiss. Africa World Press (forthcoming).

"Visions of Dominicanness in the United States." Borderless Borders: US Latinos, Latin Americans, and the Paradox of Interdependence. Ed. Frank Bonilla, et.al. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. 139-152.

"The Problem of Unity in Caribbean Literature." Sysiphus and Eldorado. Ed. Timothy Reiss andKamau Brathwaite. New York: Annals of Scholarship, 1997.

"The Cross-Cultural Unity of Caribbean Literature: Toward A Centripetal Vision." A History of Literature in the Caribbean. Vol. 3. Ed. A James Arnold. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins Publishers, 1997. 57-76

"Una novela con historia." Prologue to Los que falsificaron la firma de Dios. By Viriato Sención. Santo Domingo: Editora de Colores, 1997. vii-xxiv.

"Dominicans in New York: Men, Women, and Prospects." Co-authored with Ramona Hernández. Latinos in New York: A Community in Transition. Ed. Sherrie Baver and Gabriel Haslip Viera. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996. 30-56.

"A manera de introducción: redimir la utopía en el reino del cinismo." In Refundar la República. By Fafa Taveras. 3^rd ed. Santo Domingo: Editora de Colores, 1996. 23-32.

"The Dominican Republic." No Longer Invisible: Afro-Latin Americans Today. Ed. Miles Litvinoff. London: Minority Rights Group, 1995. 109-38.

"Marcio Veloz Maggiolo." Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 145. Modern Latin American Fiction Writers. Ed. Ann González and William Luis. Boston and London: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1994. 321-34.

"Dominican Literature and Its Criticism: Anatomy of a Troubled Identity." A History of Literature in the Caribbean. Vol. 1. Ed. A. James Arnold. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins Publishers, 1994. 49-64.

"Woman in the Male Imagination: Apology for Hispaniola Writers." The Women of Hispaniola: Moving Towards Tomorrow. Ed. Daisy Cocco de Filippis. Selected Proceedings of 1993 Conference. New York: York College, CUNY, 1993. 32-41.

"El programa de literatura de OLLANTAY." New Voices in Latin American Literature/Nuevas Voces en la literatura latinoamericana. Comp. Silvio Torres-Saillant. Ed. Miguel Falquez-Certain. New York: OLLANTAY Press, 1993. 10-13.

IV. Encyclopedia entries/prefaces/introductions/reviews

"Preface." Coloring the Nation: Race and Ethnicity in the Dominican Republic. By David Howard. Oxford and Boulder: Signal Books Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2001. vii-x.

"Espaillat, Rhina P." Making It in America: A Sourcebook on Eminent Ethnic Americans. Ed. Elliott Robert Barkan. Santa Barbara, Denver, and Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2001. 115.

"Payan, Ilka Tanya". Making It in America. Ed. Barkan. 278.

"Junot Diaz." Herencia: The Anthology of Hispanic Literature of the United States. Ed. Nicolas Kanellos. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 417.

"Carmita Landestoy." Herencia. Ed. Kanellos. 595.

"Gatón Arce, Freddy." Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture Vol. 3 Ed. Barbara A. Tenenbaum. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996. 40.

"Review of Drown by Junot Díaz." Urban Desires 2.5 (Nov-Dec 1996): 2 pp. Online. Internet.

"Incháustegui, Cabral, Héctor." Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture Vol. 3 Ed.

Barbara A. Tenenbaum. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996. 250-51.

"Rueda, Manuel." Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture Vol. 4 Ed. Barbara A.

Tenenbaum. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1996. 618.

"Passage to English: The Dominican Community's Rise to Literature Visibility." Rev. of They Forged the Signature of God. By Viriato Sención. The Latino Review of Books II.2 (Fall 1996): 27-29.

"Rev. of Writing in Limbo." By Simon Gikandi. Research in African Literatures Vol. 26 No. 2 Summer (1995): 216-18.

"A Manifesto of Human Dignity." Preface. Can I Get a Witness. By Seneca Turner. Alexandria: Kitabu Press, 1994. v-vii.

"A Poet of his People, A Poet of the World." Introduction. Countersong to Walt Whitman and Other Poems. By Pedro Mir. Trans. Jonathan Cohen and Donald D. Walsh. Washington: Azul Editions, 1993. vii-xii.

"Los que falsificaron la firma de Dios: A Turning Point in Dominican Fiction." Brujula/Compass 16 (1993): 12.

V. Journal essays

"La historia sin fin: El Caribe y las ciencias humanas occidentales." Revista Iberoamericana. Special issue on Representations of the Nation. Guest-edited by Bladimir Ruiz, University of Pittsburg. (forthcoming).

"Fiction is the Poor Man's Cinema: An Interview with Junot Diaz." Co-authored with Diógenes Céspedes. Callaloo 23.3(2000): 892-907.

"Nothing to Celebrate." Culture front: A Magazine of the Humanities 8.2 (Summer 1999): 41-44.

"Introduction to Dominican Blackness." Dominican Studies Working Papers Series No. 1. CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, 1999.

"Literatura dominicana en los Estados Unidos." Ventana Abierta 1.4 (Spring 1998): 22-29.

"Creoleness or Blackness: A Dominican Dilemma." Plantation Society in the Americas 5.1 (Spring 1998): 29-40.

"The Tribulations of Racial Identity: Black Consciousness in Dominican Society and Culture." Latin American Perspective 25.3 (1998): 126-146.

"The Construction of the Other in Studies of Dominican Migration." Sargasso 9 (1997): 3-12.

"Hacia una identidad racial alternativa en la sociedad dominicana." Op.Cit 9 (1997): 235-52.

"Decentralizing Human Culture: World Literature and Multiculturalism." Punto 7 Review: A Journal of Marginal Discourse 3.1 (1996): 139-89.

"The Trials of Authenticity in Kamau Brathwaite." World Literature Today 68.4 (1994 ): 697-707.

VII. Magazine articles

"Serving a Burgeoning Local Community: CUNY Dominican Studies Institute." CUNY Matters. Winter 2001. 3.

"Para legislar la crueldad." Rumbo (Santo Domingo weekly). 5.336 (July 10, 2000): 56-57.

"A Voice of Homelands and Diasporas"/"Chant de l' exil et voix du pays"/"Voces de patrias y diasporas. "Americas 52.5 (September/October 2000): 64 A magazine of the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States, published simultaneously in English, French and Spanish.

"La política de la representación en los Estudios Latinos." Quimera 181 (June 1999): 44-47. Also in Diálogo Feb. 1999: 25

"Vituperar a la diáspora: La excepción boricua." Rumbo Año No. V. No. 278 31 May, 1999: 50-52.

"Yoleros y boatpeople: Relaciones domínico-haitianas en la diáspora." Diálogo April 1999.

"Dos mujeres y un camino: Aporte al discurso feminista dominicano" Rumbo Año V No. 223 11 May, 1998: 32-35.

"Diaspora and National Identity: Dominican Migration in the Postmodern Society" Migration World Magazine XXX.3 (1997): 18-22.

"Similitudes y un ancho mar de diferencia: Contrapunteo de la tierra natal y la diáspora." Rumbo Año IV No. 171 12 May, 1997: 52-55.

"A Caribbean Conversation Made in USA." Urban Desires 2.5 (Nov-Dec 1996): pp. Online. Internet.

"Identidad cultural como batalla: Hacia una visión nativa de lo dominicano." I and II. Rumbo Año II Nos. 140 and 141 7 Oct., 1996: 33-36 and 69-72.

"The Dominicans." Alumnus 91.3 (Summer 1996): 14-15.

"La intelectualidad dominicana ante la crisis nacional: De la apatía a la complicidad." Rumbo Año II Nos. 99-100 25 Dic., 1995: 39-46.

"La oblicua intelectualidad dominicana." Rumbo Año II No. 89 11-17 Oct., 1995: 42-48.

"El trujillismo erótico o la orgía del terror." Rumbo Año II No. 61 29 Mar.-4 Apr. 1995: 13-17.

"Julia Alvarez frente a la falocracia dominicana." Rumbo Oct. 12-18, 1994: 44-46.

"La cúpula católica y la justicia divina." Rumbo Sept. 7-13, 1994: 45-46.

"Hacia una identidad étnica alternativa." Rumbo 26 May-1 June, 1994: 45-47.

VIII. Newspaper articles

"The Races of Latinos." New American Perspectives. The Pride of Syracuse Latino. September 2001. p. 30.

"Assimilation Blues." New American Perspectives. The Pride of Syracuse Latino. December 2001. p.30.

"The Enduring Legacy of Dominican Independence." Viva New York, Daily News VII.2 (Mar 1999): 3-4.

"Magia a nivel de las palabras." El Diario/La Prensa 1 Dec. 1996: 4.

"Dios los cria y la historia los junta: Puertorriqueños y dominicanos." El Diario/La Prensa El Diario II Supplement 6 August 1995: 33.

"Desde las trincheras académicas." El Diario/La Prensa El Diario II Supplement 18 June 1995: 38.

"The Morality of Celebrating Columbus." The Campus. 7 Nov. 1994: 13-14.

"A los predicadores de la paz viciada." El Diario/La Prensa 16 Aug. 1994:17.

"Respeto a la iglesia e indignación cristiana." El Nacional 4 Aug. 1994: 23.

"Comunidad debe identificar retos para enfrentarlos." Listín USA 11-17 May 1994: 32.

"Dominicanos e identidad racial alternativa." El Nacional 30 Mar. 1994: 24.

"Identidad étnica alternativa en R.D." El Nacional 25 Mar. 1994: 16.

"Superación de la identidad nacional." El Nacional 23 Mar. 1994: 23.

BOARDS

I. Editorial Boards

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

Latino Studies, a new scholarly journal published by Palgrave.

Tercer Milenio: Poesía/ Ensayo/ Crítica/ Traducción, a Latino/Latin American literary magazine published in New York

Callaloo: A Journal of African American and African Arts and Letters, quarterly published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

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

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

Latin American Writers Institute, an organization supporting Latino writers in the United States based at Hostos Community College.

II. State Arts Councils/Literature Panels

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

Member, Literature Organization and Prose Fellowships, New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Appointed for 1994.

Consultant, Illinois Arts Council. Recruited in 1994 for a one-time engagement to evaluate literary proposals seeking funding from the Council.

III. National and Local Boards

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

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

Member, Hispanic American Education Advisory Board, National School Conference Institute, Phoenix, Arizona. Appointed in August 1999 - Fall 2000.

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, Honorary Exhibition Committee, The Museum of the City of New York. Appointed in March 1999.

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.

ORGANIZATIONAL WORK (past four years)

Co-sponsored talk by Vicente "Panama" Alba for the 10^th Anniversary Celebration of the Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity, Inc. (La Hermandad Latina). Held at the Sheraton University Hotel. Syracuse 2-3 February 2001.

Co-organized the program, "Reading Poetry in the Year 2001," featuring 5 significant guest poets, in collaboration with LLL, DIPA, Art Media Studies, and the journal Point of Contact. Held at the Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse University 1 February 2001.

Co-organized "Latino Culture/Dominican Republic," featuring guest speaker Prof. Luis Lizardo, in collaboration with the group Latino Students Making A Difference at SU. Held at the Schine Student Center, Syracuse University 28 February 2001.

Organized "Caribbean Writers Imagine the Millennium," the 2001 Ray Smith Symposium, featuring 20 guest writers and scholars representing the Spanish-, French-, English-, and Dutch-speaking Caribbean. Held at 1916 E. S. Bird Library each Wednesday in the month of April (4, 11, 18, and 25) 2001. See coverage of event in Connections (Fall 2001) p.5.

Co-sponsored "The Brazilian Landless Workers Movement: Putting People Before Profits," featuring guest speaker Maurilio de Lima Galdino, with the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts and the Syracuse Social Movements Initiative. Held in Eggers 341, 15 October 2001.

Co-sponsored and organized the interdisciplinary summit "The Transnationalization of Everyday Life: The Impact of Global Transformations on Community Experiences," with the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, with the financial support of the Rockefeller Foundation ($20, 000). Held at The City College of New York, 24-25 May 2001.

Co-sponsored and organized the international symposium "Up from the Margins: Diversity as Challenge to the Democratic Nation," with the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute and various sister institutions in the United States and abroad, with the financial support of the Rockefeller Foundation ($76, 000). Featuring over 50 scholars from Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Spain, and the United States, the event took place in two parts and two cities: in New York City (City College) 22-23 June 2001 and in Santo Domingo (Santo Domingo Hotel) 29-30 June 2001.

Co-sponsored "Café con Leche," a Latino students' cultural night, with LA LUCHA. Held at the Schine Student Center, Syracuse University 5 October 2001.

Organized "A Conversation with Author Angie Cruz" in collaboration with students. Held at 214 Hall of Languages, Syracuse University 4 October 2001.

Organized "Reading and Conversation with Noted New York Puerto Rican Fiction Writer Abraham Rodriguez," in collaboration with LA LUCHA. Held at the Kilian Room, HL, Syracuse University 8 November 2001.

"Recent U.S. Migration Legislation: Negative Impact on the Dominican Community." City College, April 23, 1999.

"Contemporary Visions of the Dominican Experience: A discussion, reading, and booksigning featuring recently published works on Dominican life by a journalist, a political scientist, and a fiction writer. City College, April 23, 1999.

"Fiction and the Nightmare of Migration: Dominican-American Writing in New York," a discussion, reading, and booksigning. City College, March 19, 1999.

"Women and Dominican Literature: A Reading and Conversation." City College, November 7, 1998.

"Counterpoint of Diaspora and State: Political and Cultural Relations of US Dominicans with their Native Land," a panel discussion on the paradoxical interdependence of US Dominicans and their compatriots in the Dominican Republic. City College, October 3, 1998.

"Dominican Culture at the End of the Century: Issues for a Future Research Agenda," a symposium on visual arts, spiritual traditions, popular/folk music, and history of the Dominican people in the homeland and the United States. City College, June 5-6, 1998.

"Women Slaves in Colonial Santo Domingo." City College, February 14, 1998.

PAPERS AND LECTURES (past four years)

"The Enduring Significance of Borders." Guest lecture followed by intense engagement as discussant to doctoral student papers during the Research Training Course 'Home and Exile: Making Sense of Lives on the Move.' Held at the Graduate School of International Development Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark, 1-5 December 2001.

"Writing Has to Be Generous: An Interview with Angie Cruz." Conversation conducted at the Public Theater, New York City, 13 July 2001. The resulting 36-page edited transcript became a tool offered to students as a companion to the author's novel Soledad, which I taught in the Fall 2001.

"National Belonging and the Dialectic of Here and Elsewhere." First 2001-2002 William P. Tolley University Faculty Dinner Forum. Held at the University Sheraton Hotel, Syracuse, 17 October 2001.

"Commentary." Response to the Panel 'Latinismo, Identity and Culture' in the conference Latino New York: History and Politics, Identity and Culture. Coordinated by the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies. The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 12 October 2001.

"Introducing Angie Cruz." Introduction of author during program The Evolution of an Ethnic Community: Dominican Americans in Upper Manhattan. Coordinated by Cohen Library and CUNY Dominican Studies Institute. Held at The City College of New York, 10 October 2001.

"Latino Memories of the US Presidency." Behring Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. 27 September 2001.

"Ethnic and Foreign Counterpoints in US Caribbean Literature." A paper in panel LAT 15: Toward a Redefinition of National Literature? XXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association held in Washington, D. C. 6-8 September 2001.

"La traición de Calibán." A community lecture sponsored by Librería Calíope, a Hispanic bookstore in Northern Manhattan, 9 August 2001.

"La cultura caribeña en la Era 'Pos-colonial.'" V International Seminar on Caribbean Studies organized by the Caribbean Studies International Institute and the University of Cartagena. Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 30 July-3 August 2001.

"Latinos in the US Imaginary." A scholarly group discussion held at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, 7-9 June 2001.

"Latino and Caribbean Writers" (with Monica Wadman) Syracuse University Project Advance conference. Held at the Sheraton University Hotel. 17 May 2001.

"A Map of Reading: US Diversity and the Other Americas" during Syracuse University Project Advance conference at the Sheraton University Hotel. 16 May 2001.

"A Diplomacy of Knowledge: A Proposed Rapport among US Minority Research Ventures." Excellence and Innovation: A Conference on Research and Teaching in Puerto Rican/Latino Studies. Held at Hunter College School of Social Work, Manhattan, 27 April 2001.

"Americanness and Multiculturalism: Does Difference Matter?" University Neighbors 2000-2001 Lecture Series. Wescott Community Center, Syracuse, 8 April 2001.

"Cultural Studies as Pedagogy for a Diverse Society." Public lecture in the Guest Speaker Series sponsored by the Cultural Studies Faculty Group. Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, New Jersey, 16 March 2001.

"US Dominican Youth Leadership: Its Enviable Potential." Community Empowerment through Civic Participation: Second DK2 Conference. Held at The City College of New York, Manhattan, 2 March 2001.

"Looking Ahead from the Community College." Opening reception for Dominican Heritage Week, Hostos Community College, CUNY, Bronx, New York 27 February 2001.

"Latinos in the US Imaginary." A scholarly group discussion held at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, 16-17 February 2001.

"The Counterpoint of Diaspora and Nation." New Jersey Conference on Dominican Affairs. Held at the Rutgers University School of Law, Newark, 4 February 2001.

"Latino Poetics: A Pan-Ethnic Tabulation of U.S. Hispanic Texts." Presentation during conference of the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage. University of Houston, Houston, Texas. December 1-3, 2000.

"The Hispanic Presence in Central New York." Presentation for the Syracuse Newspapers. Syracuse, New York. October 4, 2000.

"The Art of Persuasion: Writing and Truth in Speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr." Presentation to high school seniors sponsored by the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity's Mentor Program. Henninger High School, Syracuse, New York. September 23, 2000.

"Commentary." Words on Nancy Foner's book From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration. During panel at The Gotham Center for New York History Forum. CUNY Graduate School and University Center, New York City, December 12, 2000

"Making a Case for Syracuse University." Presentation to prospective applicants sponsored by the Metropolitan Admissions Program, Lubin House, New York City, December 19,2000.

"El lado oscuro de la cultura: Dominicanness as an Object of Reflection." Presentation to a community audience sponsored by Casa de la Cultura Dominicana en Nueva York," Manhattan, December 13, 2000.

"Problematic Paradigms: Racial Diversity and Corporate Identity in the Latino Community." Presentation during national conference Latinos in the XXI Century: Mapping the Research Agenda. Sponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 6-8, 2000.

"Farewell to the Heroes: Another Look at Caribbean History and Culture." Presentation during Caribbean Writers Symposium. University of the Sacred Heart, Santurce, Puerto Rico, September 28, 2000.

"Commentary." During panel discussion Ritmos Dominicanos: An Exploration of Dominican Music Through the XX Century. Sponsored by the Association of Hispanic Arts, held at The New School University. February 24, 2000.

"The Intellectual Consequences of Diversity" Presentation during Syracuse University's William P. Tolley Summer Conference, held at Minnowbrook, May 19-21, 2000.

"Latinos in the US/Latinos at Syracuse University:Challenges and Opportunities for the XXI Century," Presentation to Syracuse University's alumni sponsored by the Syracuse University Alumni Programs. Held at Lubin House, New York City, September 21, 2000.

"Latino Discourse: Hispanic Ehtnicities and the Contours of Americanness." Presentation during Visiting Scholar Lecture Series. The Higgins School of Humanities, Clark University. Worcester, Massachusetts,

"La traición de Calibán: Nuevo acercamiento a la cultura caribeña." Presentation sponsored by the Spanish Department. Emory University. Atlanta, Georgia. April 28, 2000.

"Latino Discourse". Presentation during conference Emerging Trends and Interdisciplinary Discourses in Latino Studies. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. April 14-15, 2000.

"Commentary." Response to panel "The Digital Divide and the Latino Community." Conference Technology, Education, and Awareness. Held at The City College, New York City. February 15, 2000.

"White Supremacy and the Visage of the Nation: The Racial Imagination in Latin America and the Caribbean." Presentation during conference The Meaning of Race in the Americas: Contemporary Perspectives." Held at Brown University. Providence, Rhode Island. February 10-12, 2000.

"Youth Leadership and Community Empowerment." Dominicans 2000: Building Our National Agenda, sponsored by Dominicans 2000. Held at City college, New York. February 25-27, 2000.

"Commentary" During panel on Publishing, Publishers, and Caribbean Literature in the colloquium "Between Caliban and Sycorax: Kamau Braithwaite and Caribbean Culture." Sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University. December 9, 2000.

"Commentary." During panel "Scholarship and Empowerment: U.S. Dominicans in the Corridors of the Academy." Sponsored by the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute. The City College of New York, New York City, June 30, 2000.

"The Changing Face of Latinos in New York City." Presentation during Breakfast Seminar Series sponsored by The Latino Forum of Tri-State. Held at the national Arts club in New York City. June 6, 2000.

"Commentary." During panel on Scholars and Writers in the conference Dominicans in United States: America's New Face." Sponsored by the Dominican American National Roundtable. Held at Columbia University, New York City. October 6-8, 2000.

"Writing for One's Life: A Linguistic Adventure." Keynote address during Multiple Voices: IV Writing Conference sponsored by the Special Education Training and Resource Center of the Syracuse City School District. Held at LeMoyne College. February 5, 2000.

"Claiming Americanness: The Future of U.S. Dominicans Imagined." Keynote address during the IV Annual Banquet of Quisqueya Student Union at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, February 19, 2000.

"Introducing Kalli Kofinas." Words of presentation on Kalli Kofinas, an 11^th grader from Manhasett High School who won one of the year's Young Scholar Awards for an essay on Greek general Metaxas. Sponsored by the New York Council for the Humanities. Held at Fordham University. June 12, 2000.

"La teologia mundana de Luis Barrios." During launching of the book Josconiando by the Rev. Luis Barrios. Held at City College, New York City. December 10, 2000.

"The Challenge of Ethnic Studies Ventures and Minority Faculty at Elite Institutions." During conference sponsored by the Mulitcultural Center. Williams College. Williamstown, Massachusetts. November 18, 2000.

"Caliban Revisited: the Trauma of History in Caribbean History and Culture." During panel at MLA Annual Convention. Held in Washington, D.C. December 27, 2000.

"El saber de la diaspora." Presentation during launching of Daisy Cocco de Filippis' Documents of Dissidence. Sponsored by Libreria La Trintiaria: Dominican Institute, and Syracuse University's Latino-Latin American Studies Program. Held at Sociedad Dominicana de Bibliofilos. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. July 4, 2000.

"Collaboration and Development at the Haitian Dominican Border." Presentation during dinner for Comité Gestor pro Instituto Tecnologico Fronterizo. Sponsored by Hostos Community College. Held at Restaurant El Valle. Bronx, New York. June 29, 2000.

"Commentary." Response to speakers in panel on "Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, South Americans, and Latino Pan-Ethnicity." During conference on Political Participation in New York City. Sponsored by the Urban Research Center and others. Held at the CUNY Graduate School and University Center. June 16, 2000.

"Catálogo de inquietudes: Tensión entre la diáspora y el estado," during the launching of El retorno delas yolas: Ensayos sobre diáspora, democracia y dominicanidad, under the auspices of Ediciones Librería La Trinitaria and Editora Manatí, held at Museo Nacional de Historia y Geografía, Plaza de la Cultura, Santo Domingo on August 3, 1999.

"Challenges of Latino Studies as an Academic Field," during the Latino Studies Colloquium held at The Ohio State University on April 9-10, 1999.

"About the Dominican Americans," during the seminar: "History and Culture of Latino Communities in the U.S.," hosted by The Latino Studies Program, Columbia University, March 24, 1999.

"Re-Education of the National Imaginary: Toward a Panethnic Vision of American Literature," hosted by the English Department, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, March 5, 1999.

"The Placeless People: Diasporic Disquisitions and Dominican Transnationality." Hosted by The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, March 3, 1999.

"Yoleros o Boatpeople: Mirada diaspórica a las relaciones domínico-haitianas," during the panel

"Nacimiento de la Nación Dominicana." Hosted by Centro Cultural Orlando Martínez, February 27, 1999.

"Here to Stay: Dominicans as An Ethnic Minority in the USA," during the Latino Celebration 1998-99. Hosted by Millersville University, February 25, 1999.

"The Dialectics of Gender Interactions," during the roundtable discussion "Class, Gender, Race/Ethnicity and Academic Achievement." Hosted by The College Board, Rockefeller Foundation, February 19, 1999.

"The Status and Future of Latino Studies." Hosted by the Latino-Latin American Studies Program, Syracuse University, February 4, 1999.

"Dominican Immigration: A Hemispheric Approach to Understanding Its Causes and Future." Hosted by Dominican Consulate, Philadelphia, PA, January 29, 1999.

"Las Novedades 1914-1918: A Dominican Interlude in U.S. Hispanic Literary History," during "Nuestra América: Inscribing Latinos in the National Discourse," the 5^th Conference of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage. Houston, TX, December 4-5, 1999.

"Beyond Transnational/Transmigrant Identity: Race, Community, and Diaspora Among U.S. Dominicans." Hosted by The Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy, November 24, 1998.

"A Historical Overview of Dominican-Puerto Rican Relations," during the panel: "One Hundred

Years of Interethnic Relations: Puerto Ricans and Dominicans in the D. R., P.R., and the U.S." The Puerto Rican Studies Association, 3^rd International Conference. Brooklyn College, October 15-17, 1998.

Discussant at the panel: "The Transformation of Culture (Part I)," during the conference "The Caribbean and the United States Since 1898: 100 Years of Transformation." Hosted by Lehman College, Hunter College, and Brooklyn College, October 13-15, 1998.

Special Remarks during the 1998 Student Awards Reception of the Association of Hispanic Faculty & Staff of the City College of New York. City College, October 15, 1998.

"New York Dominican Transnationality," during the panel: "Reading U.S. Latino & Latinizing/Hybrid Cities: Processes of Globalization & Hybridization in the New World." Mapping Latino/Latin American Chicago (MLAC): Theoretical & Cultural Dimensions in the Age of Globalization. University of Illinois, Chicago, September 28-29, 1998.

"New Definitions of Dominican Identity," during the Dominican Youth Arts Festival. Wolfsonian Institute, Miami Beach, July 25, 1998.

Guest Speaker on the program on "Dominican Americans" hosted by the WWOR-TV UPN 9 TV Show "Hispanic Horizons." New Jersey, July 11, 1998.

Keynote Speaker at the Graduation Ceremony of Auxiliary Services for High Schools. Hunter College Assembly Hall, June 12, 1998.

"Transcending Caliban," during the Ohio University's Annual Coloquio Primaveral. Ohio University, May 13-16, 1998.

"The Dominican Diaspora Between Two States," during the conference: "States and Diasporas," hosted by Casa Italiana at Barnard College, May 9, 1998.

"Puerto Ricans and Dominicans: The Tenuous Ties that Bind Them," during the conference: "Mainland Latinos' Perspectives on Puerto Rican Status and Issues of Citizenship and Cultural Identity," organized by the Institute of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies. University of Connecticut, April 16, 1998.

"An Absence of Caliban: Haitian and Dominican Roots of Caribbean Discourse", during the symposium "1898: War, Literature and the Question of Pan-Americanism" organized by the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS), Princeton University, March 27-29, 1998.

"Open Admissions Under Attack: Maintaining Opportunities for Latino Students in Higher Education," during the 11^th Annual Conference of "Somos el Futuro." Hosted by the Puerto Rican/Hispanic Task Force, March 21, 1998

"Education and English as Roads to the Empowerment of Immigrants," hosted by Centro Cultural Orlando Martínez, Inc., March 13, 1998.

"The Problem of Racial Identity in Dominican Society," during the conference "The Politics of Race in the Hispanic Caribbean" organized by Latin American Studies Program, Macalester College. St. Paul, Minnesota, March 6, 1998.

"Past, Present, Future of Dominican Republic" During the 4^th Annual Dominican Independence Celebration organized by the Quisqueya Club, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, February 26, 1998.

"Dominican Culture in the United States" During the panel "A Historic Synopsis of Dominican Republic" organized by Boricua College, New York, February 25, 1998.

"The Dominican Experience" During the Workshop on Hispanic Culture and Immigration organized by he Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration and the New York Police Academy. New York, January 20, 1998.

"One American In the 21^st Century: The President's Initiative on Race," a conference hosted by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, January 7, 1998.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

Latin American Studies Association (LASA).

Modern Language Association (MLA).