Alexander Lalama

Dr. Alexander Lalama is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Bradley University’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. His academic journey includes a PhD and MA in English from Claremont Graduate University, with a concentration in Latinx Literature, and a BA in Psychology from the University of Southern California.

• Latinx Literature
• 20th/21st Century Hemispheric American Literature
• Gender & Sexuality in Literature
• Music Subcultures & Literature
• American Gothic

His scholarly work examines punk subculture’s intersections with diasporic identity, religious syncretism, and literary self-fashioning. Publications span topics from Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban to Emily Dickinson’s historical context and feminist representations in cinema.

Dr. Lalama’s current research focuses on bicultural authenticity in Celia C. Pérez’s The First Rule of Punk, contributing to the University Press of Mississippi’s forthcoming anthology Contemporary Young Adult Literature and the Fashioning of Black & Brown Youth.