Carol W.N. Fadda grew up in Beirut, Lebanon where she earned her B.A. and M.A. from the American University of Beirut. She graduated from Purdue University in 2006 with a Ph.D. in contemporary American Literature. Her research interests in Arab and Muslim American Studies, American Studies, critical race and ethnic studies, and transnational studies interrogate structures, logics, and manifestations of US empire, militarization, and exceptionalism that determine the lives of racialized communities in the US and abroad. Her first book听Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging听(NYU Press, 2014) engages an array of Arab American literary and visual texts from the 1990s onwards that contest negative representations of Arabs and Muslims in the US. In it, Fadda emphasizes feminist, anti-assimilationist, and transnational modes of Arab American and Muslim American belonging that contest the conceived boundaries of the US nation-state and transform hegemonic forms of national membership and citizenship.

Her current book-length project,听Carceral States and Dissident听Citizenships: Narratives of Resistance听in听an听Age听of听鈥淭别谤谤辞谤鈥�听highlights US global carceral practices by focusing on Arab and Muslim narratives and testimonials of incarceration and confinement coming out of the 鈥淲ar on Terror.鈥� Her study extends to legal and historical documents, literary texts, visual documentation, and political discourse emerging from secret and extra-legal incarceration sites including the Guant谩namo Bay and Abu Ghraib prisons.

She is the recipient of an NEH summer grant, a Future of Minority Studies Fellowship, and a 黑料不打烊 Humanities Center Fellowship. Her essays on gender, race, ethnicity, war trauma, cross-racial solidarities, and transnational belonging have appeared in a variety of journals and edited collections.

She serves as the editor of the听听at 黑料不打烊 Press.

Silvio Torres-Saillant, Professor in the English Department, is Dean鈥檚 Professor of the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences, where he formerly headed the Latino-Latin American Studies Program, served as Director of the Humanities Council, and held the post of William P. Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities. His books include听The Once and Future Muse: The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P.听Espaillat听[with Nancy Kang] (University of Pittsburgh P. 2018),听Caribbean Poetics听(2nd ed. Peepal Tree Press 2013; 1st. ed. Cambridge University P. 1997),听An Intellectual History of the听Caribbean听(Palgrave 2006),听El tigueraje intelectual听(2nd ed. Mediabyte 2011; 1st ed. CIAM/Manati 2002),听El听retorno de las yolas听(2nd ed. Editora Universitaria Bon贸 2019; 1st ed. LaTrinitaria/Manat铆 1999), and听The Dominican Americans听[with Ramona Hern谩ndez] (Greenwood 1998).

He co-founded La Casita Cultural Center, an off-campus unit of the College of Arts and Sciences conceived as a bridge of communication, collaboration, and exchange between the school and the Latino population of the city while promoting the Hispanic heritages of Central New York. Before coming to SU, he founded the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, an interdisciplinary research at the City College of New York, and taught in the English Department of Hostos Community College, CUNY. As a visitor, he has taught at Amherst College, Harvard University, the Universidad de Cartagena, and Colombia鈥檚 Universidad Nacional. He lectures widely in Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States.

A member of the Editorial Board of the University of Houston鈥檚 Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, he is Associate Editor of听Latino Studies听(Palgrave) and has edited the New World Studies Series for the University of Virginia Press.