Paula Moya

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Professor of English; Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures (by courtesy); Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of the Humanities; Director of the Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
Stanford University
Moya’s teaching and research focus on twentieth-century and early twenty-first century literary studies, feminist theory, critical theory, narrative theory, American cultural studies, interdisciplinary approaches to race and ethnicity, and Chicano/a and U.S. Latina/o studies. She is the author of The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism (Stanford UP 2016) and Learning From Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles (UC Press 2002) and has co-edited three collections of original essays, Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century (W.W. Norton, Inc. 2010), Identity Politics Reconsidered (Palgrave 2006) and Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism (UC Press 2000).

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April 2023

Annual Review of Public Health 44, 131-150, 2023