Silvio Torres-Saillant
Honorary Chairman
Silvio Torres-Saillant is a Professor of English at Syracuse University and one of the foremost intellectuals and scholars of the Dominican diaspora, Caribbean histories and literatures, and race in Latin-American and diasporic Latino communities. His writing includes An Intellectual History of the Caribbean, The Dominican-Americans, Introduction to Dominican Blackness, Caribbean Poetics, El Tigueraje Intelectual, and Diasporic Disquisitions: Dominicanists, Transnationalism, and the Community, among many articles, chapters, and edited volumes. Prior to joining the faculty at Syracuse, he founded the prestigious CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at the City College of New York, where he taught from 1997 to 2000.