Lyn Di Iorio
Professor of English, City College and CUNY Graduate Center, English
Degrees/Diplomas: Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley; M.A., Creative Writing, Stanford University; B.A., Harvard University
Campus Affiliation: City College of New York|CUNY Graduate Center
Research Interests: Caribbean and U.S. Latino/a literatures; literatures of the Americas; magical realism; ghosts and the Gothic; fiction writing: the novel; minority and multi-ethnic literature and aesthetics.
Theory Group Field Specialization: Postcolonial Literature and Theory
Chronological Period Specialization: American Literature to 1900|Twentieth-Century Literature
Selected Publications:
Moments of Magical Realism in US Ethnic Literatures, co-edited anthology (Co-editor. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Outside the Bones, a novel (Arte Publico Press at The University of Houston, 2011).
Contemporary U.S. Latino/a Literary Criticism, an anthology (Co-editor. Palgrave Macmillan 2007).
Killing Spanish: Literary Essays on Ambivalent U.S. Latino/a Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, Global Publishing at St. Martin's Press, 2004, 2009).
Works-in-process:
"The Voices of Laughter in The Brief Woundrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz,” article in projected anthology (Duke UP).
It's All About Shoes, co-edited anthology on women’s relationships with their shoes (Telling Our Stories Press).
The Sound of Falling Darkness, a novel (second runner-up for the 2011 Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Novel-in-Progress award).