"Racist Violence as Civilization in the Americas Since 1492"
Virtual Lecture Series on Diversity
Event Information
Speaker: Dr. Silvio Torres-Saillant
Date: Thursday, September 16, 2021, 7:00 p.m. CST
Location: Online
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. 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 the Birmingham Modern Languages Lecture Series, University of Birmingham, UK, in 2012; delivered the 2013 Annual Walter Rodney Memorial Lecture at the University of Warwick in Coventry, UK; and gave the keynote opening address for the 58th Casa de las Américas Literary Prize, in Havana, Cuba, 2017.
Torres-Saillant began his higher education full-time teaching at Hostos Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY). There he founded the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at The City College of New York, which continues to thrive as the foremost organized research unit dealing with the history, culture, and social condition of people tracing their ancestry to the Dominican Republic. While at Syracuse University, he co-founded La Casita Cultural Center, an off-campus unit of the College of Arts and Sciences committed to serving the Hispanic population in the city of Syracuse and bringing into visibility the long historical and cultural presence of people of Spanish and Latin American heritage in the Central New York region. Professor Torres-Saillant serves on the Editorial Board of the University of Houston’s Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project and on the Advisory Board to the Molina Family Latino Gallery scheduled to open in 2022 at the National Museum of American History, while serving as Associate Editor of the Palgrave journal Latino Studies since 2003 when this serial publication began.
This event is made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
For more information, contact Dr. Adam Kozaczka at 956.326.3300 or adam.kozaczka@tamiu.edu
*Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this speaker series do not necessarily represent those of Humanities Texas or the National Endowment for the Humanities.
