Antonio López
Title — Associate Professor of English
Office — Rome Hall, Room 670
Phone — (202) 994-6902
E-mail — amlopez@gwu.edu
Areas of Expertise —
Latino; African diaspora; twentieth-century and contemporary American; literary and cultural theory.
Current Research
Antonio López has written on Cuban diasporic literature and culture and matters of racial and national identity. His current book project considers the cultures of Latino transit: the literary and popular expressions of walking and riding in their embodied varieties across public and private U.S. transportation infrastructures.
Education
Ph.D., Rutgers University, 2005.
B.A., Florida State University, 1994.
A.A., Miami-Dade Community College, North Campus, 1991.
Publications
Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America (New York: New York University Press, 2012).
“Cosa de Blancos: Cuban-American Whiteness and the Afro-Cuban-Occupied House,” Latino Studies, Volume 8, Issue 2, Summer 2010.
“Enrique Patterson: Black Cuban Intellectual in Cuban Miami,” in The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States, ed. Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010).
“Chronicling Empire: José Martí on the Avenue of the Americas,” in The Cuban Republic and José Martí: Reception and Use of a National Symbol, ed. Mauricio A. Font and Alfonso W. Quiroz (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006).