Silvia Burunat, Ph.D., Graduate Center, CUNY. Professor of Spanish. Her research has concentrated on the History of the Spanish Language, Spanish Grammar, Sociolinguistics, Spanish for Native Speakers, and Literature of Memoirs. She is the author of several books, reviews and articles, and the co-editor of Veinte años de literatura cubano-americana (1988). Her latest books are La sintaxis del español (2020), La estructura del español (2019), El español y su evolución (2014), Jornada de amor y lágrimas (2006), Josefa y Josefina (2007), Monólogos dialogados (2008), Autobiografía póstuma (2009), Fantasías reales (2010), editor of 17 memorias y un prólogo (2010), Danny y Danielle y otras historietas (2017), Diario de una psicoterapeuta (2021). Prof. Burunat has created four new courses for the CMLL Department under the rubric of Special Topics in the last four years: Literature of Memoirs, Therapeutic Literature, Literature of Travels and Travelers and Eros & Cupid in Contemporary Spanish Language.

Ph.D., Graduate Center, CUNY.