BIOGRAPHY

Inmaculada Lara Bonilla is an author and Associate Professor of Latin American and Latinx Literature and Cultural Studies at ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡, CUNY, where she also serves as the Director of the Latin American Writers Institute and as Chief Editor of the ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ Review/ Revista ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡iana. 

Prof. Lara-Bonilla's research has appeared in national and international journals, such as Latino Studies, Public, New York History, Cuadernos de ALDEEU, and Chicana/Latina Studies. Her academic writing has also been included in edited volumes and reference volumes such as Gale Literary Research or Equality Archive. She edited the special issue of ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ Review titled Stirred Ground: Non-Fiction by Contemporary Latina and Latin American Women Authors (2015). Her poetry has been published in the journals such as Stone Canoe, Literal, Enclave, ViceVersa, in the anthology Luna y panorama sobre los rascacielos (2019) and is forthcoming in a new anthology with the publisher Sial Pigmalion.

EDUCATION

  • PhD Latino/a Studies, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain 
  • M.A. in Latin American Literature, Temple University, Philadelphia 
  • BA in English, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

AREAS OF INTEREST

Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean literature, gender and sexuality studies, transnational feminist theory, philosophy, cultural studies and migration studies.


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • “The Decolonial Phenomenology of Shifting: Writing Encounters in the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Archive.” Chicana/ Latina Studies 19 (1), Fall 2019. 
  • “Writing Excess in Light in the Dark/ Luz en lo oscuro: Anzaldúa’s Phenomenology of Writing as a Decolonizing Tool.” Cuadernos de ALDEEU 34. New York, NY, Spring 2019.
  • “Partners in Dialogue: Engaged Approaches to Pedagogy, Scholarship, and Audience -Building for BETSY!, The Appalachian-Puerto Rican Musical.” Public 4.1, Spring  2017. 
    (Co-authored with Lindsay Cummings, PhD)
  • New Latina Voices: Julia Alvarez, Sandra Cisneros, and Elena María Viramontes. Gale American Literature Researcher. New York, NY, 2017
  • “Crafting a Latina/o Higher Education Rights Discourse in New York: The Founding and ‘Saving’ of ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡.” New York History Journal 96.2. Summer 2016.
 
 


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