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Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS)

William Burgos

William BurgosBorn in Cidra, Puerto Rico, and raised in Bushwick, Brooklyn, William Burgos has taught at LIU Brooklyn since 1994. Currently, he directs the Campus's Writing Across the Curriculum Program. As an undergraduate at Columbia University, he majored in English literature. He continued the study of English at Yale University, where he got his PhD. At Yale he also began to study and teach Latino literature. He taught Yale's first seminar on Puerto Rican-American literature in the American Studies Department. Over the past twenty years, he has taught courses in African-American, Ethnic, Latino-American, and Puerto Rican literatures, as well as Western literature surveys.


Publications
The Commuter Nation: Perspectives on Puerto Rican Migration. Ed. Carlos Antonio Torre, Hugo Rodríguez Vecchini and William Burgos. San Juan: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico,1994.


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Un día, los hombres descubrirán un alfabeto en los ojos de las calcedonias, en los pardos terciopelos de la falena, y entonces se sabrá con asombro que cada caracol manchado era, desde siempre, un poema.
Alejo Carpentier, Los pasos perdidos