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Prof. Juan
Flores |
Professor Juan Flores, a well known scholar in the field of Puerto Rican and Cultural Studies, has been teaching at the college level since 1968, when he was named Assistant Professor in the Department of German Studies at Stanford University. He moved back to New York in 1975 and became Research Director in the area of Cultural Studies at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CUNY, now at Hunter College). He then took a position as Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at Queens College. In 1989 he transferred to the City College for one year as Director of the International Studies Program, and then as Full Professor (1992) in the Department of Latin American and Hispanic Caribbean Studies.
As a member of the graduate faculty in the Doctoral Sociology Program since 1991 he has taught seminars in sociological theory, Latino and cultural studies at the CUNY Graduate School . In 1994 he was appointed Director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, a position he held until 1997. Since 1999 he has been director of Hunter's Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program.
Prof. Flores has been a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Council on the Humanities and has consulted for the Smithsonian Institution and the Rockefeller Foundation. His major book publications are Poetry in East German, Memoirs of Bernardo Vega, Divided Arrival, Divided Borders: Essays on Puerto Rican Identity, and La Venganza de Cortijo y Otros Ensayos. His new book, From Bomba to Hip Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity, published by Columbia University Press in 2000.
His essay on the Puerto Rican writer Antonio S. Pedreira was awarded the Casa de las Americas prize in 1980. In addition to serving on the board of several journals, he is currently coeditor of two book series, one with the University of Minnesota Press, the other with Temple University Press.
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