Juan Flores

professor, cultural studies, CUNY

Juan Flores is Professor in the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (CUNY) and in the Sociology Program at the City University of new York Graduate Center. In recent years he has also been visiting professor at Rutgers, Princeton, Columbia, New York University and Harvard. From 1994 to 1997 he served as Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter, and is currently Director of Hunter's Mellon Minority Fellowship Program. He is the author of *Poetry in East Germany* (Choicemagazine award), *The Insular Vision* (winner Casa de las Americas award), *Divided Borders: Essays on Puerto Rican Identity*, and *From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity*. He also is the translator of *Memoirs of Bernardo Vega* and of *Cortijo's Wake* by Edgardo Rodriguez Julio. His work has appeared in numerous journals and newspapers in the U.S. and Latin America. He is co-editor of two book series, one on "Cultural Studies of the Americas" for University of Minnesota Press, the other on "Puerto Rican Studies" with Temple University Press.