Lora Patricia Romero was an American assistant professor of English at

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. She specialized in 19th and 20th century American literature, Chicano/a cultural studies, and gender theory.

Life and work

Romero was born in

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in 1960. She graduated from

and earned her master's and doctoral degrees from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

. Romero was a former Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and also served as a member of the National Council of the

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. She taught at

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and the

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before accepting a position in the Stanford English Department in 1993. Her first and only book, ''Home Fronts: Domesticity and Its Critics in the United States, 1820-1870'', was published by

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and appeared in print just days after her death.

Legacy

The

annually awards the Lora Romero First Book Prize in her honor. The

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 stud ...

offers a scholarship entitled the Lora Romero Memorial Award for Interdisciplinary Research in Race, Ethnicity and Gender.

References

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