Between 1996 and 2007 – Short research stays in the United States, France, Trinidad & Tobago, Haiti and Ghana.
1984-1991 Stay at the University of California, Los Ángeles (UCLA), EE.UU for Master and Ph.D. Studies. Trips to New York, New Jersey, Berkeley, San Francisco and South of the U.S. for Ph.D. Disseration research.
1989 Five-week stay in the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, including trips to Durban and Cape Town for Dissertation research.
1981 Six-week stay in the University of Edinburgh (Scotland) to study Scottish Literature.