Lázaro Lima (Ph.D., Maryland) is currently a Research Fellow at the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University (2018-2019). Lima is the the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in the Liberal Arts at the University of Richmond where he is a Professor of Latino Studies. His work centers on the political emergence of Latino forms of civic personhood, and the attendant institutional, juridical, and cultural industries that enable Latino democratic legibility and participation to emerge in civil society.
He is the author of The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory (NYU Press, 2007), Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing, with Felice Picano (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011), Trevor Young: The Aesthetics of Displacement (Museum Arts Press, 2013), Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question (forthcoming in 2019), and the executive producer and co-writer of two documentary films, Las Mujeres: Latina Lives, American Dreams (Deronda Productions, 2016), and the forthcoming Rubi’s Story: A DACA DREAMer in Trump’s America (Deronda Productions 2018). Lima is the recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Library Association, and many other institutions. His research, scholarship and creative work has appeared in the popular press, edited volumes, and academic journals including American Literary History, The Journal of Transnational American Studies, Revista Iberoamericana, A Corracorriente, The Wallace Stevens Journal (WSJ) and many others. |
