Lorna L. Perez, Ph.D.

Lorna Perez (she/her) is an associate professor of English, teaching courses in Latina/o literature, US ethnic minority literatures, women's literature, contemporary literature, 20th century American literature, and popular culture/cultural studies.  She specializes in Latinx literature, though her research interests also include ethnic literatures of the United States, postcolonialism, diaspora, feminism, borderland theory, cultural studies and the literatures of the global south. Her critical work has appeared in numerous encyclopedias, and journals including Chicana/Latina Studies, Ethnic Studies Review, Centro Journal and others.  Her work "Out of Time: Resisting the Nation in One Hundred Years of Solitude" appears in the newly published Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century.  Her creative work has been published in elimae, The Mississippi Review, Label me Latina, BlazeVox18,  and The Buffalo News.

In addition to her work in the English Department, Dr. Perez also works with a variety of interdisciplinary committees and boards, including the Honors' Program Board (where she served as a faculty fellow from 2018-2019). She is core faculty for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and affiliate faculty in Africana Studies.

In the summer of 2014, she was elected interim Chair of the English Department for academic year 2014-2015. She was the recipient of the Muriel A. Howard Presidential Award for the Promotion of Equity and Campus Diversity for 2017-2018 and the EOP Faculty Merit Award for 2019.

Beyond the campus, Dr. Perez served as the guest editor for the Label me Latina/o Special Summer 2020 issue (Un)Natural Disasters: Sites of Resistance. In Fall of 2020, she was appointed the permanent Special Issues Editor for the journal. She is currently serving as a SUNY Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice Fellow for 2023-2025 

Courses Fall 2024: 

Women in Literature (ENG 231) 

Multiethnic American Literature (ENG 354) 

Honors Diversity Seminar: Borderland Literature (HON 303)

Office Hours Fall 2024: 

Wednesdays 1-4 (in person, or on zoom) or by appt. 

Education: 

PhD English, University at Buffalo 

MA, English, University at Buffalo 

BA, Philosophy and English, Creighton University