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Lawrence
La Fountain-Stokes
Associate Professor
U of M Affiliation(s)
Program in American Culture
Latina/o Studies
Department of Romance Languages & Literatures
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1999.
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Contact Information:
505 S. State Street, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045
3757 Haven Hall
Phone: 734.647.0913
Fax: 734.936.1967
Email:
lawrlafo@umich.edu
Fields of Study: Latino/Latina studies; Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean studies; women’s, gender, and sexuality studies; lesbian, gay, and queer studies; theater and performance.
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Website
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/rll/deptdir/facultybios/lafountain-stokes.html
Awards
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation 2006 Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty.
Ford Foundation 2006 Postdoctoral Diversity Fellowship (declined).
Michigan Campus Compact 2006 Faculty/Staff Community Service-Learning Award.
Publications:
“Cultures of the Puerto Rican Queer Diaspora,” in Bradley Epps, Keja Valens, and Bill Johnson Gonzalez, eds., Passing Lines: Sexuality and Immigration. Cambridge: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Harvard University Press, 2005. 275-309.
"Dancing la Vida Loca: The Queer Nuyorican Performances of Arthur Avilés and Elizabeth Marrero." Arnaldo Cruz Malavé and Martin Manalansan, IV, eds.
Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Afterlife of Colonialism. New York: New York University Press, 2002, pp. 162-175
"Tomboy Tantrums and Queer Infatuations: Reading Lesbianism in Magali García Ramis's Felices días, tío Sergio." Lourdes Torres and Immaculada Pertusa-Seva, eds.
Tortilleras: Hispanic and U.S. Latina Lesbian Expression. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003, pp. 47-67.
“Entre boleros, travestismos y migraciones translocales: Manual Ramos Otero, Jorge Merced y El bolero fue mi ruina del Teatro Pregones del Bronx.” Revista Iberoamericana 212 (July-Sept 2005):887-907.
“Pop Shock: Shifting Representation of Diasporic PUerto Rican Women's Queer Sexualities in U.S. Latina Cultural Texts.” Letras femeninas 31.1 (Summer 2005):79-98.
“La politica queer del espanglish.” debate feminista [Mexico] 17.33 (April 2006):141-153.
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