Lyn Di lorio

• B.A., Harvard University, Magna Cum Laude 
• M.A., Stanford University, Creative Writing Program 
• Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, English

• Caribbean Spirits, Colonial Ghosts: Pan-Caribbean Literature
• Magical Realism in the Americas, and Beyond
• U.S. Latino/a Literature
• Fiction Writing Workshops

--Caribbean Literature
--Literatures of the Americas
--Magical Realism
--Ghosts and the Gothic in Literature
--Fiction writing: the novel and short story
--Minority literature
--Latino/a literature and aesthetics

Published Books:
Killing Spanish: Literary Essays on Ambivalent U.S. Latino/a Identity (Palgrave Macmillan 2004)

Contemporary U.S. Latino/a Literary Criticism (Co-editor. Palgrave Macmillan 2007)

Selected Published Short Stories:
"Refrain for Chico Lotario" (The Hogtown Creek Review)
"The Cauldron" (The Bilingual Review/Revista Bilingue)
"The Other Number" (The Texas Review, reprinted in CCNY's Promethean)

Forthcoming work:
Outside the Bones, a novel

Current awards
2008-9 PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Award for work on Outside the Bones.