Lázaro Lima (Ph.D., Maryland) is the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in the Liberal Arts and Professor of Latino Studies at the University of Richmond. 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, co-edited with Felice Picano (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011), Trevor Young: The Aesthetics of Displacement (Museum Arts Press, 2016), Losing Sonia Sotomayor: An American Life After Multiculturalism (forthcoming from Arte Público Press), and the executive producer of the documentary film Las Mujeres: Latina Lives, American Dreams, co-written with director Carrie Brown (Deronda Productions, 2017). His creative work, research, and scholarship has appeared in the popular press, edited volumes, and academic journals including American Literary History, Journal of Transnational American Studies, Revista Iberoamericana, A Corracorriente, The Wallace Stevens Journal (WSJ) and many others. He is the recipient of grants and awards from many institutions and foundations including the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Library Association. Lima currently serves as the University of Richmond's Associate Provost for Faculty. |
