Profile:

Emily Lutenski's research and teaching interests include multiethnic literatures and cultures, 20th century American literature, modernism, and gender studies. Her essay, "'A Small Man in Big Spaces:' The New Negro, the Mestizo, and Jean Toomer's Southwestern Writing," appeared in the Spring 2008 issue of MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. Her article, “Locating the Modern Mexican in Josephina Niggli’s Step Down, Elder Brother," is forthcoming in Western American Literature. She is working on a manuscript that builds upon her dissertation, titled In the Land of Enchantment: Multiethnic Modernism and the American Southwest, where region brings together writers from separate gendered and ethnic literary traditions in order to envision new and "outlandish" geographies of identity.

Education:

Ph.D. in English and Women's Studies, University of Michigan (2008)

M.A. in English Language and Literature, University of Michigan (2003)

B.A. in English and Women's Studies, University of California-Berkeley (2000)

Classes:

Ethnic Studies 1010: Introduction to Ethnic Studies
Ethnic Studies 2010: Ethnicity and Social Movements
Ethnic Studies 3010: Ethnicity in the United States