Contact Information
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-176
Urbana, IL 61801
Office Hours
Research Interests
Latinidad in the U.S. and abroad, Identity formation processes, Issues of citizenship, Migration, Abolition and incarceration, Ethnography
Research Description
My work considers the intersection of geographic location and identity, calling upon theorists Gloria Anzaldúa, José David Saldívar, and Stuart Hall to analyze the reconfiguration of space in defining immigrant populations outside of traditional cultural enclaves.
Education
MFA in Creative Writing, Emerson College
MA in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BS in Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Courses Taught
Teaching assistant
GC 295: Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program
LAST 170: Introduction to Latin American Studies
LLS 100: Introduction to Latina/Latino Studies
SPAN 130: Intermediate Spanish
Instructor of record
CW 463: Advanced Topics in Creative Writing
ILIP (Intensive Language Instruction Program): Intermediate Spanish
LAST 170: Introduction to Latin American Studies
LAST 395: Latin American Insurgencies
LLS 100: Introduction to Latina/Latino Studies
LLS 279/HIST 279: Mexican American History
LLS 355: Race and Mixed Race
LLS 357/ENGL 357: Literatures of the Displaced
LLS 390: Independent Study
LLS 392/GWS392/SOC392: Chicanas & Latinas: Self and Society
Additional Campus Affiliations
Center for Global Studies (CGS)
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
Department of Latina/Latino Studies
Education Justice Project (EJP)
Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory
Highlighted Publications
Lule, Liliana. 2023. “‘Wherever I go I carry home on my back’: notions of belonging in Ana Castillo’s Sapogonia.” MidAmerica XLX.