Elena Lahr-Vivaz is Associate Professor of Spanish at Rutgers University–Newark. Dr. Lahr-Vivaz researches, writes, and teaches on Latin American literature and film, border cinema, and representations of race in the Americas.
Dr. Lahr-Vivaz is the author of two books: ExternalWriting Islands: Space and Identity in the Transnational Cuban Archipelago (University Press of Florida, 2022) and ExternalMexican Melodrama: Film and Nation from the Golden Age to the New Wave (University of Arizona Press, 2016). Mexican Melodrama was written with the support of a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and received Honorable Mention for the 2015 Northeast Modern Language Association Book Award; the title is available in Spanish as ExternalEl melodrama mexicano: Cine y nación desde la Época de Oro hasta la Nueva Ola (Rialta Ediciones, 2019).
Dr. Lahr-Vivaz is affiliated with the ExternalRutgers Advanced Institute for Critical Caribbean Studies. She serves as director of the SOMOS NJ Poetry & Culture Festival.
Publications
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Writing Islands: Space and Identity in the Transnational Cuban Archipelago, University Press of Florida, 2022
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El melodrama mexicano: Cine y nación desde la Época de Oro hasta la Nueva Ola, Ediciones Rialta, 2019
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Mexican Melodrama: Film and Nation from the Golden Age to the New Wave, University of Arizona Press, 2016
Awards & Distinctions
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Mellon Humanities Leadership Fellow
Rutgers University-Newark, 2021-2022
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Center for Cultural Analysis Faculty Fellowship
Rutgers University-New Brunswick, 2015-2016
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Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
Princeton University, 2011-2012
Courses
- Introduction to Latin American Literature
- Critical Approaches to Latin American Short Stories