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Department of English
519 Hill Hall
(973) 353-5279 X 519
llomas@andromeda.rutgers.edu
http://english-newark.rutgers.edu/
Laura Lomas is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Literature, Graduate School Faculty member and regularly teaches courses cross-listed in the Women's Studies Program. She is author of Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects and American Modernities e(Duke University Press, forthcoming). Her research interests include U.S., Latina/o and Latin American Literature and culture, narratives of migration from Latin America to the United States, theories of modernity, translation, nationality and empire, and feminist cultural studies.
Among Lomas' recently published work are "José Martí Between Nation and Empire: Latino Cultural Critique at the Intersection of the Americas," in José Martí and the Cuban Republic, Mauricio Font and Alfonso Quiroz, eds. (2006), and "The War Cut Out My Tongue': Domestic Violence, Foreign Wars and Translation," in American Literature (2006). Her essay "José Martí's 'Evening of Emerson': Latino Resignification of the United Statesian Literary Tradition" is forthcoming from the Journal of American Studies. She is currently preparing two related projects: Small Shimmering Works: An Anthology of Gilded Age Latina/o Writing in New York and New Jersey and a collection of essays entitled The Trans-American Gilded Age. Lomas teaches courses in Latino/a, U.S. and comparative American literatures, in addition to literary and feminist theory.
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