Juan Flores, professor of Black & Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY), is guest speaker for the Latino Studies Program's spring colloquium at Cornell University on Friday, April 6, at 4:30 p.m. in 142 Goldwin Smith Hall. The talk will focus on issues of Puerto Rican and Latino identity, and is free and open to the public.

Flores serves a dual appointment in the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College and in the sociology program at the CUNY Graduate Center. He received his B.A. from Queens College in 1965 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1970. His research and teaching focus on social and cultural theory, popular culture and ethnicity and race, especially Puerto Rican and Latino studies.

Flores is the author of Poetry in East Germany (Choice magazine award), The Insular Vision (winner Casa de las Americas award), Divided Borders: Essays on Puerto Rican Identity , andFrom 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 Rodríguez Juliá and co-editor of On Edge: The Crisis of Latin American Culture . His work has appeared in numerous journals and newspapers in the United States and Latin America, including Daedalus , Journal of Ethnic Studies , Revista de Ciencias Sociales , Harvard Educational Review , and Modern Language Quarterly . 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. He has served on editorial boards for several journals, including The Americas Review , Black Renaisssance , and The Latino Review of Books , as well as on the boards of directors of the New York Council on the Humanities, the Recovering the Hispanic Literary Heritage Project and the Latin Jazz Project of the Smithsonian Institution.

The talk is co-sponsored by Cornell's: University Lectures Committee; Department of English; Office of Minority Educational Affairs; Africana Studies and Research Center; Office of the Dean of Students; departments of History and of Government; Public Service Center; Asian American Studies, Latin American Studies and American Studies programs; Society for the Humanities; and Student and Academic Services.