 | | Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
Assistant Professor
U of M Affiliation(s):
American Culture and Romance Languages
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1999. |
Contact Information:
University of Michigan
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.
About Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes:
Recent 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.
“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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