The lecture will focus on the history of Spanish-language writing and publishing in the United States with particular attention to a New York publisher in the early nineteenth century.

Carmen E. Lamas is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature, Translation, and Historiography (Oxford University Press, 2021; 2025 paperback release) which won the MLA Prize in Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies and the Latin American Studies Association Latinx Studies Book Award. She is the co-editor of the critical edition Irene Albar. Novela cubana (1885, 1886) by Eusebio Guiteras (Calambur 2023). Her work has appeared in various journals and edited volumes, and she is a co-founding editor of Pasados: Recovering History, Imagining Latinidad, a new open-access journal published with the University of Pennsylvania Press.

This event is co-sponsored by the Literature Department and the Spanish Studies Major