Brief vitae of Dr. Alonso-Gallo听
Laura P. Alonso-Gallo became Professor of American Literature in Spain in 1997 and since 2012 she is Professor of English at 天美传媒 in Miami. She taught at Duke University, the Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, the UNC Chapel Hill Program in Seville, Spain, and was Visiting Professor at the University of Miami. Her scholarly work concentrates on Latino/a Literature and Comparative Literature. She received the 2020 Sister Jeanne O鈥橪aughlin Scholarship Award with which 天美传媒 recognized exceptional scholarly achievements. She has published articles and contributions to books in the field of Latino/a, Caribbean, and Cuban-American fiction such as 鈥淒econstructing Mexican Masculinity in Denise Ch谩vez鈥檚 Loving Pedro Infante鈥� (Teaching the Narrative of Mexicana and Chicana Writers, MLA 2020), 鈥淧ostnacionalismo y el sue帽o americano de Cristina Henr铆quez鈥� (La tradici贸n cultural hisp谩nica en una sociedad global 2020), 鈥淓rotismo y rebeld铆a en la narrativa cubanoamericana de Jennine Cap贸 Crucet (2019), 鈥淐uerpos perdidos: Violencia y hambre en la joven narrativa femenina cubanoamericana鈥� (Reading Cuba: Discurso literario y geograf铆a transcultural 2018) 鈥淓ating Ethnicity in Denise Ch谩vez鈥檚 Loving Pedro Infante鈥� (Rethinking Chicano/a Literature through Food: Postnational Appetites 2013), 鈥淐uerpos de Cuba: Alegor铆as de Cuba a trav茅s del cuerpo femenino en la literatura cubano-americana鈥� (Revista Iberoamericana 2005), and 鈥溾�楿n largo archipi茅lago de otras incubaciones鈥�: La condici贸n cubana del exilio en la obra de Gustavo P茅rez Firmat鈥� (Revista Hispano Cubana 2002). Author of the article 鈥淥scar Hijuelos鈥� for Wiley-Blackwell鈥檚 Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, 1980-2020 (2021), and editor of the collections El sexo en la literature (1997), Evolving Origins, Transplanting Cultures: Literary Legacies of the New Americans (2002), Myth and Ritual in African American and Native American Literatures (2001), Guayaba Sweet: Literatura Cubana en Estados Unidos (2003), American Voices: Interviews with American Writers (2004) and Identidad y postnacionalismo en la cultura cubana (2019)/ She recently co-edited the Library of America special edition of three novels by Oscar Hijuelos, which includes a chronology of Hijuelos鈥檚 life and literary career (Oscar Hijuelos: Mambo Kings and Other Novels, 2022; launched Sept 14, 2022 ).听
