Silvio Torres-Saillant (PhD, New York University) is Professor of English and Chair of the Humanities Council at Syracuse University, where he formerly held the post of William P. Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities and headed the Latino-Latin American Studies Program. His publications include An Intellectual History of the Caribbean (Palgrave 2006); The Dominican-Americans (Greenwood Press 1998); Caribbean Poetic: Toward an Aesthetic of West Indian Literature (Cambridge UP 1997; Peepal Tree Press 2013): EI Tigueraje Intelectual (2d ed. Mediabyte 201l); An Introduction to Dominican Blackness (CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, City College of New York, 1999); and El Retorno de las Yolas: Ensayos Sobre Diaspora, Democracia y Dominicanidad (Ediciones Librerta La Trinitaria 1999). He is Associate Editor of the journal Latino Studies and one of the Senior Editors of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinos in the United States.