Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
From QueerBio.com
Country
Puerto Rico
Birth - Death
1968 -
Occupation
Writer, Academic
Description
Associate Professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in the departments of American Culture, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Women’s Studies. Formerly at Ohio State, Rutgers, and the State University of New Jersey. Author, poet, scholar, performer. Main research interests are queer/LGBT Hispanic Caribbean (Cuban, Dominican, Puerto Rican) studies, U.S. Latina/o, and Latin American literary, cultural, and performance studies. Books include 'Translocas: Migration, Homosexuality, and Transvestism in Recent Puerto Rican Performance (2011). Multiple awards for both his works and his work with LGBTQ students. Also known as Larry La Fountain.
