Laura Lomas

Laura Lomas, (Ph.D. Columbia 2001), Associate Professor, English and American Studies at Rutgers University, teaches Latina/o literature and culture, and literatures of the United States and the Americas. Her book, Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects and American Modernities (Duke University Press, 2008), received the Modern Language Association's Prize for best book in Chicana and Chicano and Latina and Latino Studies, and an Honorable Mention for the Latin American Studies Association's Latino Studies Section Book Award. A recipient of NEH and Fulbright Fellowships, she is Associate Editor of Signs, member of the Advisory Board of the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project. Other recent publications include: "The Unbreakable Voice in a Minor Language: Following José Martí's Routes," in Vanessa Y. Perez, ed. Hispanic Caribbean Migration: Narratives of Displacement (Palgrave, 2010), "José Martí's 'Evening of Emerson' and the United Statesian Literary Tradition," Journal of American Studies (2009); "Redefining the American Revolutionary: Gabriela Mistral on José Martí," Comparative American Studies (2008), and "'The War Cut Out my Tongue': Foreign Wars, Domestic Violence and Translation in Demetria Martínez," American Literature (2006), which was a finalist for that year's Best Essay in Western American Literary Studies.