EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
M.A., University of Arkansas
B.A., Briar Cliff College, Iowa

ACADEMIC RANK
Full Professor, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature, Stony Brook University.
Full Professor, Comparative Literature, Stony Brook University
Affiliated Faculty, English Department, Stony Brook University
Core Faculty, American Studies Program, Stony Brook University

CADEMIC RANK
Full Professor, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature, Stony Brook University
Full Professor, Affiliated member, Comparative Literature, Stony Brook University
Full Professor, Affiliated member, English Department, Stony Brook University

VISITING PROFESSOR
University of Simón Bolívar, Quito, Ecuador 1997
University of Venezuela, Mérida, 1999
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2004

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS
Chair, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, Stony Brook, 1994-1997; 1998-2004
Chair, Department of Comparative Studies (Comparative Literature, Classics, Judaic Studies, Asian Studies and Religious Studies), Stony Brook, 1990-93
Head, International Programs, Stony Brook, 1983-84

PUBLICATIONS
Books:

Latin, Latino, American: Split States and Global Imaginaries (In progress. Verso, due 2005)

Políticas sin Telos, La Habana: Instituto Cubano del libro (in press, due 2005)

Cuba On My Mind: Journeys to a Severed Nation, London: Verso, 2000

Latin Americanism, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

América Latina y sus comunidades discursivas: literatura y cultura en la era global; Caracas: CELARG (Centro de Estudios Latino America Rómulo Gallegos). 1998.

Late Imperial Cultures, co-editor and contributor, with E. Ann Kaplan and Michael Sprinker, London: Verso, 1995.

José Triana: teatro y ritualizacion, Minneapolis: Institute for Literary Studies, 1980.

Contra Viento y Marea (Against All Odds), co-editor and contributor, with Lourdes Casal,Vicente Dopico, and Margarita Lejarza, La Habana: Casa de las Americas, 1980.

Contra Viento y Marea re-edititions:
-- Mexico City: Siglo XXI, 1980;
-- El Salvador: Editorial Universitaria, 1980;
-- Sao Paulo, Brazil: 1980, Alfa-Omega, translated by Leda Rita Cintra Ferraz.

REFEREED ARTICLES, ESSAYS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

"Postcolonial Sensibility, Latin America and the Question of Literature" Coloniality at Large, Latin America and the Post-Colonnial Debate, Mabel Moraûa, Enrique Dussel and Carlos Jaruegui, eds. Duke University Press (forthcoming).

"Latin, Latino, American: Split States and Global Imaginaries." (Re-issue). Globalization and the Humanities, edited by David Leiwei Li, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, pp. 101-120: 2004.

"Globalizacion y nostalgia: Buena Vista Social Club." (Re-issue) Sargasso, (special issue on Caribbean Film) 2003-2004, pp. 39-58. América Latina y la mirada poscolonial," Special Issue on Latin American Studies, UNAM, Mexico, 2004.

"Mimicry and the Uncanny in Caribbean Discourse" (Reprint of Chapter from my Latin Americanism), in Latin American Cultural Studies Reader, edited by Ana del Sarto, Alicia Rios, and Abril Trigo, editors, Duke University Press, 2004.

"Hispanism and Its Lines of Flight", Special volume of Hispanic Issues on the Future of Hispanism, ed. Nicolas Spadaccini, University of Minnesota Press. 2004.

"Split States and Global Imaginaries: Latin/Latinos/Americans," (re-publication), Globalization and the Humanities, edited by David Li, Hong Kong University Press, 2003.

"Comparative Latin American Studies: Literary and Cultural Theory," Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America, Sophia A. MacClenenn and Earl E. Fitz, Purdue University Press, 2004. pp. 56-68.

"On New American Subjects and Intellectual Models", Nepantla, Issue 3, pp. 235-245, 2003.

"Deconstruction, Cultural Studies, and Global Capitalism: Implications for Latin America." Critical Latin American and Latino Studies, Juan Poblete, ed. Mpls: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.

"Embajadas de la fuga y pensadores académicos", Revista Iberoamericana, Num 203 (Abril-Junio) pp. 323-472, 2003. "América Latina y el imperio de la inmanencia", Nuevo Texto Crítico, número especial sobre los estudios literarios y culturales latinoamericanos. Diciembre, 2003.

"La fantasía (o pesadilla) de un beisbol posmoderno", La Gaceta de Cuba, Abril, 2003.

"Globalization and the Culture of Nostalgia: The Case of Buena Vista Social Club," special volume on Latin American Cultural Studies, edited by Mabel Morana, Editorial Cuarto Propio, Santiago, Chile, 2002.

"Latin American Studies: Literary, Cultural and Comparative Theory." Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America. Ed. Earl E. Fitz and Sophia A McClennen, CLCweb journal, Purdue University Press, Fall, 2002.

"The Lettered City: Power and Knowledge in Latin America." In Foucault and Latin America: Deployments and Appropriations of Discursive Analysis. Benigno Trigo, ed. Routledge, 2001.

"El sublime encanto de la nostalgia cultural," Temas (Havana, Cuba), no. 27, December, 2001.

"Split-States and Global Imaginaries: Latin/Latinos/Americans. Special Issue of Comparative Literature on Globalization and the Humanities, edited by David Li, Fall 2001.

"Norteamérica y su mundo latino: ontologías, globalización, diásporas", Revista Iberoamericana, Spring, 2001.

"Seminario: Latinos en USA", (co-participant in panel discussion) Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, no. 2, verano 2001, 43-58.

"América Latina: confección y marketing de un campo de estudios," Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, vol. 74, 2000.

"Latinos and the Crossover Aesthetic", preface to Magical Urbanism, Mike Davis, London: Verso, 2000.

"Las Américas: más allá del norte y del sur," Las relaciones culturales entre América Latina y los Estados Unidos después del fin de laguerra fría", ed. Ellen Spielmann, Berlin: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2000.

"Latin America and US Latinos: Plural Ontology and Diaspora", Postmodern Notes, Winter 2000.

"Latinoamérica y sus nuevos cartógrafos: discurso poscolonial, diásporas intelectuales y enunciación fronteriza" (reprint of article originally published in 1997), in Mapas culturales para América Latina, Sarah de Mojica, ed., Bogotá, Colombia:CEJA, 2001.

"La latinidad de Norteamérica: retos y equívocos" Paisajes después del Muro, ed. Iván de la Nuez, Ediciones Península, Barcelona, 1999. "Magical realism: A Genre for the Times?" Canadian Review of Hispanic Studies, Summer 1999.

"On Border Artists and Transculturation: The Politics of Postmodern Performances and Latin America." Hybridization and Latin America, Rita de Grandis, ed. 1999.

"De la deconstrucción al nuevo texto social" Revista Iberoamericana, Special Issue on Latin American Cultural Studies, Mabel Moraña, editor, Santiago de Chile: Cuarto Propio, 1999.

"La dimensión espectral de lo inconmensurable: relecturas de Rulfo," Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, vo. XXII, No. 2, Winter, 1998.

"The Discourse of Theory on the Caribbean", A History of Literature in the Caribbean, ed. A. James Arnold, New World Studies Series, University Press of Virginia, 1997.

"Cultural Studies, Neoliberalism and Globalization", in The Politics of Research, George Levine and E. A. Kaplan, eds., New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1997.

"Morando entre las aguas de la diáspora cubana," Actual, Revista de la dirección de cultura de la universidad de los Andes, Venezuela, No. 37, Sept-Dic. 1997.

"Ángel Rama en la coyuntura posmoderna." Voz y Escritura, Vol. 2, No. 6-7, Revista de Estudios Literarios, Venezuela, 1997.

"El desafío inesperado de La ciudad letrada," Revista Iberoamericana, University of Pittsburgh. Special Volume, 1997.

"Investing in Cuba," Dissent, Summer 1997, pp. 24-26. "Angel Rama en la coyuntura posmoderna", Escritura, Caracas, Summer 1997.

"La escritora y la crítica en América Latina", Homenaje a Pedro Lastra, edited by Elizabeth Monasterios, La Paz, Bolivia: Universidad de los Andes, 1997.

"América Latina y sus nuevos cartógrafos, " Revista Iberoamericana, vol. 7, 1997.

"Postmodernism, Cuban choteo, and the Repeating Island", Postmodern Notes, Winter 1996.

"Ideology meets Globalization," Dissent, Spring 1996, pp. 38-41.

"Poscolonialismo: Diásporas, nómadas y otras comunidades discursivas," JALLA: 1996, Tucumán Argentina, ed. Ricardo Kalimán, pp. 129-147.

"Cuban Diaspora and Exile", Dissent, Spring, 1995, pp. 207-209.

"Postmodernism and Revolution: A Central American Test Case", Late Imperial Culture, ed. by Román de la Campa, Ann Kaplan and Michael Sprinker, Verso. Spring, 1995, pp. 122-148.

"On Latin Americanism and the Postcolonial Turn", Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Steven Totosy de Zepetnek and Sneja Gunew, eds. Fall 1995, pp. 745-771.

"Miami, Los Angeles and Other Latino Capitals", Postmodern Notes, Fall 1994.

"Hibridez posmoderna y transculturación: políticas culturales en torno a Latinoamérica", Hispamérica, vol. 67, Summer, 1994, pp. 3-22. "Dialogue, Diaspora, and the Cuban Nation", in Apuntes Posmodernos/Postmodern Notes, Spring 1994, pp. 3-20.

"The Latino Diaspora in the United States: Soujourns from a Cuban Past" Public Culture, 6.2: 1994, pp. 293-317. "Latin Lessons: Do Latinos Share a World or a Word", Transition, 63, 1994, pp. 60-76.

"Transculturación y posmodernidad: ¿Destinos de la producción cultural latinoamericana? in Actual, Journal of the Institute of Literary Research, Merida, Venezuela. Spring, 1994, pp. 115-142.

"Angel Rama en la coyuntura posmoderna", Kipus, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Quito, Ecuador, 1994, pp. 15-26. "Postmodernism and Peripheral Modernity: Dialectics of a New Canon", Faculty Forum, 18. 3: 1992, pp. 54-55. (State University of New York "Curriculum Inclusion Project", edited by Marjorie Pryse, Summer Issue).

"Memorias de un dialoguero", Linden Lane Magazine, Princeton, N. J., 1991, pp. 29-33.

"Memorias del subdesarrollo: novela, texto, discurso", re-edited in Revista Iberoamericana, no.152-153: 1990, pp. 1039-1054.

"Language as Utopia and Redemption", on Pedro Pietri and Miguel Algarin, (Nuyorican poetic tradition. Review of the Americas, vol. 16, No. 2; Arte Publico Press, Houston, Spring, 1988, pp. 49-67.

"Language as utopia..." also appeared, in Spanish, in Explicacion de textos literarios, vol xv, no 2; 1987. Sacramento, California, pp. 32-50.

"Memorias del subdesarrollo: novela, texto, discurso" Hispamerica, 42.3:1986, pp. 2-18.

"Memorias del subdesarrollo: novela, texto, discurso," Semiosis, Spring issue, 1986, Universidad de Veracruz, Mexico.

"Mainstreaming Postructuralist and Feminist Thought: Jonathan Culler's Poetics", M/MLA, 15.1:1985, pp. 23-32.

"The critique of Cuban literature in the US.", Ideologies and Literature, University of Minnesota, Fall 1983, pp. 34-51.

"El pan dormido: una aventura narrativa ante la farándula machadista", Hispamerica, año ix, no.31, 1982, pp. 85-93. "Relectura y descubrimiento del Contrapunteo de Fernando Ortiz", Areito, 27, 1981, pp. 23-26.

"The New Latin American Stage: An interview with Enrique Buenaventura", Theater, Yale School of Drama (Fall-Winter, 1980), pp. 19-22.

"Applied Linguistics and Bilingualism", Preparing Teachers for Bilingual Education, ed. Octavio A. Ballesteros, Washington, D.C.:University Press of America, 1979, pp 79-91.

"Itinerario de la Brigada Antonio Maceo", Areito, Fall 1978, pp. 18-34.

"Interview with the Argentinian dramaturge Osvaldo Dragun" Latin American Theater Review, The University of Kansas, 15.3: Fall 1977, pp. 35-41.

"Theater in New Communities", Cuba Review, New York, 7. 4, 1977, pp. 12-16.

"Caribbean Culture and Literature" Areito, 10.1, December, 1977, pp. 15-22.

"Theater and the Cuban Revolution" Proceedings of the Second Annual Congress on Spanish American Literature, J. Cruz Mendizábal, ed. University of Pennsylvania at Indiana, 1977, pp. 267-274.


EDITED JOURNAL: GUEST EDITOR

Apuntes Posmodernos/Postmodern Notes, Special Double Issue, Winter 2000

REVIEW ESSAYS

Drawing the Line, Art and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Latin America by Oriana Braddeley & Valerie Fraser. London/New York: Verso, 1990. Minnesota Review, 9.3: Fall 1991, pp. 78-86.

Questing Fictions, by Kjelal Kadir, University of Minnesota Press, 1987. Minnesota Review, 10.3: Spring, 1990, pp. 58-75.

Latin American Literary History and Criticism, by Francoise Perus, appeared in M/MLA, 17.2: Fall 1984, pp. 44-47.

Panorama de la novela cubana de la Revolucion, by Ernesto Mendez, in Hispania, 58.4: March 1979, pp. 135-142.

These Living Songs, ed. by Margaret Randall, in Areito, no. 8.1, 1979, pp. 35-38. Casa de las Americas: An Intellectual Review in the Cuban Revolution, by Judith Weiss, Areito, 18.2, 1979, pp. 15-18.

SEMINARS, INVITED LECTURES, AND SYMPOSIA DURING PAST EIGHT YEARS:

"Language, Diaspora and National Identity," Havana Film Festival, December 2005.

"Presentation of Film "Suite Habana" at Stony Brook Graduate Student Conference, November 2004.

"Seminar on Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory," University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2004.

Multitud y Latinidad," Instituto de Literatura Latinoamericana, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 2004.

Immanencia, Imperio y Literatura Latinoamericana," University of San Andres, Buenos Aries, Argentina, July 2004.

"American Latinos: A Moving Cartography." Tomas Rivera Policy Institute Conference, January 2004.

"Latinidades y norteamerica" Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico, Marzo 2004.

"Otredades Imposibles" Universidad Autónoma de Mexico, Marzo 2004.

"Latin America: Rigoberta Menchu and Damiela Eltit" Stony Brook University international conference on "Bodies and Memory." March 2004

"Postcolonial Sensibilities," Special conference on new Latin American intellectual models. University of California-Irvine, April 2004

"Nostalgia e Identidad Nacional", Congreso Internacional de Cultura y Desarrollo. La Habana, Cuba, Junio, 2003.

"Language, Culture and National Identities", First Latino/Hispanic/Spanish Symposium, Madrid, Spain, February 2003.

"Literature and ethnicity," Brown University, March 2003.

"The Future of Latino and Latin American Studies," University of Oregon, Eugene, March 2003.

"Postocolonial Marketing and Cultural Studies: The Case of Buena Vista Social Club," Columbia Film Seminar, Columbia University, New York, March 2003.

"The Future of Latino and Latin American Studies, University of Houston, April, 2003.

"Autobiography and Diaspora" International Book Fair, Guadalajara, Mexico. December 2002

"Comparative Theory and Latin American Studies", LACC (Latin American and Caribbean Center), State University of New York, Oct. 2002.

"Postocolonial Marketing and Cultural Studies: The Case of Buena Vista Social Club," Humanities Institute, State University of New York, Oct. 2002.

Cultural Nostalgia and Globalization: Buena Vista Social Club,@ Brazilian Organization of Comparative Literature, Brazil, July 2002.

Theory and Literature Today,@House of Poetry, Havana, June, 2002,

Women in Exile and nationalism,@Florida International University, Miami, June 2002

Cuban Culture and Global Nostalgia A, State University of New York, Old Westbury, April, 2002

Latin America and the Borders of Modernity,@ University of Pittsburgh, March 2002

Contemporary Issues in Latin American Cultural Studies@ State University of New York at Binghamton, March 2002

Latinos and Latin America@ Tulane University, April 2002

Culture and Nostalgia: The Buena Vista Social Club@, Princeton University, February 2002

Split States and Global Imaginaries,@ Plenary Speaker at the ALatin American Transculturation Conference, London School of Architecture, England, November, 2001.

Cuba and post-socialist culture,@ Cambridge University, England, November 2001.

Exotic Correctness and Buena Vista Social Club,@ University of Manchester, England, November 2001.

Panel discussion on contemporary Cuban Art,@ NYU, King Juan Carlos Center, to be held in October 2001

Memory, Autobiography and Contemporary Culture,@ NYU, King Juan Carlos Center, October, 2001.

The Sublime and Cultural Nostalgia: Buena Vista Social Club,@ University of Iowa, October, 2001.

Area Studies, Latin America and New Americanism,@ University of Utah, Sept. 2001.

Round Table on the state of Latin American Cultural Studies,@ LASA, Washington, Sept. 2001

Panel on Literature, Culture and Politics,@ Latin American Book Fair, Merida, Venezuela, July, 2001.

Latin America Today: Round Table with Alma Guillermoprieto,@ Stony Brook, May 2001

Cuban Exotica and Post-Socialist Nostalgia,@ Tulane University, April, 2001

Introduction to Edouard Glissant,@ Stony Brook, April, 2001

Havana and Miami: Tale of Two Cubas,@ University of Miami, January 2001.

Cuban Migration and Cold War Imaginaire,@ Holy Cross College, April 2001

Magical Realism and Global Imaginaire@ Emory University, January, 2001.

Latininidad y Norteamérica@ Education and Development Conference, Havana, December, 2000

Latin American Studies: Marketing a Field of Studies,@ Modern Language Association, Washington D.C., December, 2000.

Buena Vista Social Club: The Aesthetics of the Exotically Correct@, Stony Brook, October, 2000

Havana and Miami: Tale of Two Cities@ University of Minnesota, October, 2000

Borges and Post-Symbolic Literature@ University of California, Santa Cruz; May 2000

Latin American Intellectuals Today@ New School, New York; April, 2000.

La eroticidad del derrumbe: La Habana, catolicismo, y la cultura jinetera,@ University of Pittsburgh symposium on Latin American Cultural Studies. March, 2000.

Latinos in North America: questions and issues@ Latin American Studies Association Conference in Miami, March, 2000.

New trends in Latin American Literary Theory.@ month-long seminar at the Simón Bolívar University in Quito, Ecuador, Summer 1999.

Latin American Literature and the new aesthetic,@ scheduled lecture at the National Library, Havana, Cuba, 1999.

The Pope in Havana: Rituals and Revolution,@ NYU Conference on Performance and Religiosity, 1998.

Postmodern and Postcolonial conceits in Latin American literary criticism@ Tufts University, 1998.

Latin America: Inventing and Marketing an Object of Study,@ Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, 1998.

Latinos: Identity or Ontology,@ LA CASA conference on Latinos and Globalization, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1998.

On Deconstruction and the missing social text,@ International Symposium on Latin American Cultural Studies, Pittsburgh University, April 1998.

El discurso arieslista de un nuevo siglo@, International Symposium on Latin America: 1898-1998, Princeton University, March,1998.

Postmodern Hybridity and Global Transculturation in Contemporary Latin American Culture. One- month seminar, January 1998. Universidad Simon Bolívar, Quito, Ecuador.

Current Theories in Latin Americanist discourses.@ Universidad Católica, Guayaquil, Ecuador. Two-day seminar, February, 1998.

Indigenous and Minority Discourses in the Americas,@ University of Valencia, Spain. July 21-25,1997

The inconmensurability of the Other: subalternity, marginality, and minorities.@ University of Valencia, Spain. July, 1997.

Between Borges and Rigoberta,@ Canadian Society of Hispanists, St. John=s University, Newfoundland, June 3, 1997.

New American Studies and US Exceptionalism,@ Conseil Canadiense de Societes Savantes D=etudes Regionales, June 6, 1997.

Globalization and The Study of Latin American Culture,@ Two-day seminar at Romulo Gallegos Institute, Caracas, Venezuela, November, 1996.

Teorías poscoloniales y América Latina,@ One-week seminar, Universidad de los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela, November, 1996.

America Latina y sus nuevos cartógrafos,@ Two-day seminar, University of Montreal, Feb.1996.

El espacio crítico de las diásporas poscoloniales,@ Tercera Bienal Mariano Picón Zalas Venezuela, November, 1995.

"Decolonization and postcolonial constructs", Second Conference of JALLA: Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana, Tucumán, Argentina. August, 1995.

"Film and Literature in Revolutionary Cuba: Memories of Underdevelopment and Strawberry and Chocolate,@ Trinity College, Connecticut, April, 1995

Latinos and the Question of Identity,@ Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration, Stony Brook, 1995.

"Celebration and The Culture of Neoliberalism," Rutgers University, October 1994.

"Writing the Other: Latinos, Americans, Latin Americans", Poetry Center, Stony Brook. November, 1994.

"Diaspora and Latino literatures in the U.S.", Rockefeller Foundation one week seminar on Diasporas and Literature in Europe, Latin American and the United States, Bellagio, Italy, 1993.

"Postmodernism and Revolution: a Central American test case", Poetry Center, English Dept. Stony Brook, 1993.

Transculturation and Postmodernism in Latin American literature." JALLA Conferece, La Paz, Bolivia, 1993.

Transculturation and Postmodernism in Latin American Literature", Biennial Conference of Writers, Critics and Editors, Merida, Venezuela, 1993.

"New epistemes in Latin American literary criticism" MLA, Toronto, December, 1993.

"Women writers in Latin America at the turn of this century," Fourth International Congress of Women Writers, University of Guadalajara, Mexico. December, 1993.

TEACHING (Selected Graduate and Undergraduate courses taught in Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature during the past 5 years:

Contemporary Issues in Literary and Cultural Theory
Caribbean Discourse: essay and novel
Latin American and Caribbean Contemporary Narrative
Latino Fiction and Criticism in the United States
Women's Literature in Latin America
Postcolonial and Subaltern Literature and Criticism
Latin America, U.S. Latinos and border studies

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
--National Endowment of the Humanities Grant for curriculum development in American Studies, 1998.
--Academy of Teacher Scholars grant for curriculum development project in American Studies 1997.
--Grant to establish a program in Catalan at Stony Brook, from the Generalitat of Catalunya, Barcelona, 1993.
--Japan Foundation Grant for senior scholar to reside at Stony Brook during 1992-93.

--Humanities Fellowship for graduate student support, 1982-83, Stony Brook Research Incentive.
--U.S. Department of Education grant for study abroad program in Poland, awarded during my tenure as head of International Programs, 1982-83.
--Fulbright Commission Curriculum Consultant grant for a Far Eastern Scholar, also obtained while heading International Programs, (1983).
--USIA grand for faculty development at the University of Botswana, Africa, 1983.
--Ford Foundation grant, Fall 1979, for research on the literature of Hispanics in the U.S.

AWARDS
--Chancellor=s Award in recognition of outstanding scholarship and research, State University of New York, 2001.
--Chancellor=s Excellence in Teaching Award, State University of New York, 1998
--President=s Excellence in Teaching Award, Stony Brook University, 1998
--Stony Brook Outstanding Service in Undergraduate Studies Award, 1988.
--Casa de las Americas Award, for co-editing Contra Viento y Marea, in 1979; awarded by an international jury of more than fifty Latin Americanists.
--SUNY Chancellor Faculty Research Fellowhip, Summer, 1979.

ACADEMIC CONSULTANT (by invitation

One of two outside scholars appointed to the British Cuban Studies Research Board, University of Nottingham, 2004.
American Council of Learned Socities, Research Fellowships review board 2004
Lehman College Evaluation of Languages and Literatures Department, April 2004.
New York Spanish Consulate for Cultural Relations between Spain and U.S.. (2001-2002).

Manuscript reviewer for the following academic presses during past 5 years: Duke, Palgrave, University of Minnesota, MLA publications, Verso, Blackwell.
--Review panel for Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowships, 1997 and 1998 and 1999.
BReview panel for US-Mexico Cultural Fund for Binational Projects, 1998, 1999 and 2000.
--NEH Review panel for grants in higher education, 1996.
--Coordinator of JALLA (Andean Congress of Latin American Literature), 1993-1996.
--Participant, Rockefeller Foundation seminar Bellagio (Italy) on diaspora and new comparative literature, sponsored by the, Summer 1993.
--Coordinator, seminar on "Latin American Literature, Politics and Postmodernism", International Association of Philosophy and Literature, University of Kansas, 1987.
--Workshop, coordinator of the Second Festival of Popular Latin American Theater, The Joseph Papp Theater, New York, 1980.

--Organizer, Ford Foundation seminars on literary criticism for U.S. university professors in Latin America, 1979 and 1980.
--Coordinator, 1979 Latin American Studies Association panel, "Latin American Culture and Ideology", University of Pittsburgh.

EDITORIAL BOARDS
--Millenial Shifs, book series with Rutgers University Press.
--Apuntes Posmodernos/Postmonern Notes
--Consuming, Markets. and Cultures, University of Arizona
--Kipus (Literary magazine, Universidad de los Andes, Quito)

UNIVERSITY SERVICE (selected)
Assesment Committee of General Undergraduate Education at Stony Brook, 2003-2004.
Member of SPACC, Provost=s academic planning committee, 2002
Search Committee for Chair of Africana Studies, 2001
--Chair, faculty task force to create American Studies Program,1996-99
--Committee for selection of President=s Award in Excellence in Teaching, 1999
--English writing program committee 1997-99
--Globalization Studies Initiative Committee, 1998-99
--Chair, Steering Committee on the Future of the Humanities, Stony Brook, 1995.
--Member, President=s Task Force on University Five-year plan, 1995-96.
--Board of Directors, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, 1994-95.
--Search commitee for selection of Provost, 1993.
--Interdisciplinary Stony Brook Collegium, 1989-91.
--Search committee for the Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 1988.
--Chair, search committee for the Director of the AIM-EOP Program, 1987.
--University Graduate Fellowship Selection Committee for Minority Students, 1987-89.
--Faculty committee for creation of Humanities Institute, 1986-88.
--Chair, search committee for Associate Vice Provost for Minority Affairs in Graduate School, 1985.
--Search committee for the Dean of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, 1985.
--Chair, Provost's Committee on Affirmative Action, 1984-86.
--Senator-at-large, Arts and Sciences Senate, 1982-85.

--Search committee for the Vice Provost of Graduate Studies, 1982.
--Faculty committee on Health Professions, l981-82

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE (selected, other than department chair)
--Chair, committee to design new graduate program in Hispanic Languages, 1993.
--Faculty committee to establish and implement new Department of Comparative Studies, 1986.
--Director of Graduate Studies, Hispanic Languages and Literature 1982-85; 1990-1993.
--Undergraduate adviser, Spanish majors of Hispanic background for 1982-1990.

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL PLACEMENT OF ADVISEES
--dissertations directed or co-directed in three departments since 1992:
Hispanic Languages and Literatures:
Suzana Rubio (co-director)-University of Richmond, 1992
Jose Carlos Vela Bueno-U.of Wisconsin-Green Bay, 1992
Sonia Labrador University of Texas, Austin 1993
Maribel Ortiz-U. of Vermont-1993
Maria Mercedez Gracia-Trenton State University, New Jersey-1995
Hector Fernandez (co-director)-Georgia State University, 1995
Marisol Fernandez (co-director) University of Miami, 1996
Diana Valencia-Trinity College, Ct-1996.
Zenaida Maniurka, State University of New York at Old Westbury, 1999
Amy Alexander, Stanford University, 2002
Sobeira La Torre, Illinois Wesleyan University
Lucia Reyes, in process-Brandeis University
Jason Meyler, in process-Markette University
Patrick Fernandez, in process-St. Joseph College, NY
Fernando Guerrero, in process

Comparative Literature:
Andy Levy, NYU, 1995
Claudia Montilla, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia-1994.
Walter Mucher (co-director)-1996, University of Puerto Rico
Ritch Calvin, Women=s Studies, Stony Brook--2000
María Amparo Andrade, Lehigh University, Penna, 2001
Rafe Daleo, 2004. Florida Atlantic University
Deborah Gilbert (second reader) completed
Hyo Kim, in process
Ketty Thomas, in process

English
Trent Hickman (second reader), BYU, 2000
Jim Keller (second reader), 2001
Samuel Custodio (co-director), in process
Patricia Vassos, (co-director), in process
Elena Machado, (second reader), 2003, Florida Atlantic University.
Laura Valdez, (director) in process
Shelly Auster, (second reader), in process
Amrohini Sahai, (second reader), in process
Matt Herman, (second reader), in process
Kavita S. Hatwalkar, (second reader), in process