Carmen E. Lamas

Posted in 2025-2026 Readings and Talks

Dr. Carmen E. Lamas (Associate Professor, English, University of Virginia) is the author of The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature, Translation, and Historiography (Oxford University Press, 2021; 2025 paperback) which won the MLA Prize in Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies and the Latin American Studies Association Latinx Studies Book Award. She is the co-editor of the critical edition Irene Albar. Novela cubana (1885, 1886) por Eusebio Guiteras (Calambur 2023).

Her work has appeared in Revista Hispánica Moderna, Latin American Research Review, Latino Studies, and Early American Literature and in the edited volumes Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies, The Latino Nineteenth Century, Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature, and The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies. She is a co-founding editor of Pasados: Recovering History, Imagining Latinidad, a new journal published with the University of Pennsylvania Press. She is on the Advisory Board of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project and is a co-founder of the Latina/o Studies Association, an academic organization that brings together scholars, students, artists, filmmakers, community partners, and activists in the study of Latinx concerns.

Links

University of Virginia – Latin American Studies

KJCC Residency 2023-2024

The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature, Translation, and Historiography – 9 March, 2021. Oxford University.