Assistant Professor of English, Rhetoric and Writing.
Alexandra Maria Lossada is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic American Literatures. Her research focuses on literary representations of ongoing legal and social immigration trends with a special interest in the depiction of immigration detention centers, bilingualism, and ad hoc interpreters. Her courses are interdisciplinary and focus on issues related to immigration, law, transnationalism, race, gender, and illness in contemporary American fiction.
Education
- PhD, English, The Johns Hopkins University
- BA, English, University of California, Irvine
Teaching Interests
- Contemporary American fiction
- Critical Theory
- Ethnic Studies
- Interpreting and Translation Studies
- Transnationalism
Research Interests
Dr. Lossada creates analytical frameworks for bringing different ethnic literatures together in order to enable readers to see how these intersectional histories and interpretations show the local and transnational implications of criminalizing immigration. She has special interests in the Japanese American internment camp; Haitian and Central American asylum seekers; and the policing of urban spaces, and especially in the multilingual people who move within these groups. She is also interested in the significance of the 9/11 attacks and its role in intensifying anti-immigration machineries, as well as its larger global significance in rearranging understandings of space, particularly the sky. She has recently begun to explore the human rights field.
Selected Publications
Lossada, Alexandra. “Dwelling in Indeterminacy: Interpreting the Migrant Poet in Detention”
(under review at Routledge)
Lossada, Alexandra. “Multilingualism and Wordless Faith in Helena María Viramontes’ Under
the Feet of Jesus.” Studies in American Fiction. Spring 2021. 81-104.
Lossada, Alexandra. ‘“I Always Felt I Was Black: Cannibalism, Race, and Desire in Tennessee
Williams.” Textual Practice. Online. April 2017. 20 pages.