Rate My Professor Laura Lomas

Laura Lomas is a professor in the English Department and the Graduate Program in American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark, where she contributes to Literature through teaching comparative American studies, Latina/o/x literature and culture, ethnic and immigrant literature of the United States and the Americas, women's writing, nineteenth-century studies, and feminist and decolonial theory. She earned a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 2001, a B.A. in English and Religion from Swarthmore College with high honors, and a Certificate in Feminist Studies from Columbia University. At Rutgers-Newark, Lomas has served as Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program, co-founded the Latina/o Studies Working Group and the Immigrant Rights Collective, and acted as Founding Faculty Director of a graduate-level Cuba study abroad program. She was Associate Editor of Signs and serves on the Advisory Board of the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project and the Editorial Boards of Pasados, Hostos Review, and Periférica: Journal of Social, Cultural and Literary History. Lomas is an affiliate of the Latino Research Institute at the University of Texas-Austin.

Lomas authored Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects and American Modernities (Duke University Press, 2008), which won the Modern Language Association's Prize for the best book in Chicana and Chicano and Latina and Latino Studies and received an Honorable Mention for the Latin American Studies Association's Latino Studies Section Book Award. She co-edited The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2018), named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Over two dozen of her essays have appeared in journals such as Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism; Cuban Studies; Modernism/Modernity; American Literature; Small Axe; Revista de Literatura Cubana; Travesía: A Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies; Translation Review; Journal of American Studies; Comparative American Studies; and Review: Latin American Literature and Arts. Her research received support from fellowships by the British Academy, National Endowment for the Humanities, Whiting Foundation, and Mellon Foundation. She is a three-time Fulbright Fellow at the University of the West Indies (Jamaica), Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Peru), and Universidade Federal de Piauí (Brazil).