Lora Romero

Lora Patricia Romero was an assistant professor of English at Stanford University. She specialized in 19th and 20th century American literature, Chicano/a cultural studies, and gender theory.

Life and work[]

Romero was born in Chino, California in 1960. She graduated from Stanford University and earned her master's and doctoral degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. Romero was a former Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and also served as a member of the National Council of the American Studies Association. She taught at Princeton University and the University of Texas before accepting a position in the Stanford English Department in 1993. ^[1][2]

Her first and only book, Home Fronts: Domesticity and Its Critics in the United States, 1820-1870, was published by Duke University Press and appeared in print just days after her death.^[3]

Legacy[]

The American Studies Association annually awards the Lora Romero First Book Prize in her honor. ^[4]

The University of Texas at Austin offers a scholarship entitled the Lora Romero Memorial Award for Interdisciplinary Research in Race, Ethnicity and Gender. ^[5]

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