Silvio torres-saillant biography of rory
By Ramona Hernandez, Silvio Torres-Saillant..
Dr. Silvio Torres-Saillant, Professor of English and Dean’s Professor of the Humanities at Syracuse University, has headed the Latino-Latin American Studies Program and served as William P.
Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities at his school. His books include Caribbean Poetics (1997; 2nd ed. 2013), El tigueraje intelectual (2002; 2nd ed. 2011), Introduction to Dominican Blackness (1999; 2nd ed.
Biography & Autobiography / Political; History / United States Silvio Torres-Saillant; Bryan Trabold; Kate Transchel; Tomas Transtromer.
2010), An Intellectual History of the Caribbean (2006), Diasporic Disquisitions: Dominicanists, Transnationalism, and the Community (2000), and El retorno de las yolas:Ensayos sobre diáspora, democracia y dominicanidad (1999; 2nd ed.
2019). Co-author with Ramona Hernandez of The Dominican Americans (1998) and of The Once and Future Muse: The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat (2018) with Nancy Kang, he has co-edited volumes in Caribbean, Dominican, and Latina/o Studies.
A frequent lecturer at home and abroad, he inaugurated t