Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2008

Dr. Lorgia García-Peña’s specializes in Latino/Latina studies and Hispanic Caribbean literary and cultural studies, with a special focus on the Dominican Republic and its Diaspora. Her research poses a dialogue among history, literature and cultural studies, paying close attention to questions of marginality, migration and racial and ethnic identity formation. She has published work in Revista Iberoamericana, Xinesquema, and the Latino Studies Journal. Dr. García-Peña is currently working on her book manuscript entitled Dominicanidad in Contra (Diction): Imaginary Borders and the Narration of Dominican Identities Here and There where she explores how the process of racial identification of the Dominican subject has been linked to the geographical and imaginary borders that placed the Dominican nation between Haiti and the United States since the birth of the republic in the 19th century to the present. She is the recipient of the Johns Hopkins University African Diaspora Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship (2009), the Future of Minority Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship (2008), and the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2006).

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