Edna Acosta-Belén

Distinguished Service Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Women's Studies, and Director of the Center for Latino, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies (CELAC) at the University at Albany, SUNY. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and has been a postdoctoral fellow at Yale and Princeton Universities. Her areas of research include Hispanic Caribbean and U.S. Latino literary and cultural history, and women's studies. Some of her book publications include:

• Imagining the Nation: Colonialism, Migration, and Puerto Rican Culture (forthcoming, 1998);
• Women in the Latin American Development Process (with C.E. Bose, 1995);
• Researching Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (with C.E. Bose, 1993);
• The Way it Was and Other Writings by Jesús Colón (with V. Sánchez Korrol, 1993);
• The Hispanic Experience in the United States (with B.R. Sjostrom, 1988);
• The Puerto Rican Woman: Perspectives on Culture, History, and Society (1986, 1979);
• La mujer en la sociedad puertorriqueña (1980), Albany PR-WOMENET Database: An Interdisciplinary Annotated Bibliography on Puerto Rican Women (with C.E. Bose and A. Roschelle, 1991);
• An Interdisciplinary Guide for Research and Curriculum on Puerto Rican Women (with C.E. Bose and B.R. Sjostrom, 1990).

She has also published in journals such as Latin American Research Review, Latin American Literary Review, Melus, Hispanófila, Homines, Plural, Callaloo, Gender & Society, Bilingual Review and Revista Chicano- Riqueña. She has received grants or fellowships from the National Endownment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Southern Fellowships Fund, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Information Agency, and the New York State Council for the Humanities. Dr. Acosta-Belén is also one of the founders and editors of the Latino Review of Books.