Rodriguez, Lara

Title(s):

PhD Student

Email:

lrodriguez@gradcenter.cuny.edu

Institutional Affiliations: CUNY Graduate Center

Research Interests: Contemporary Literature, Critical Race Studies, Feminist Theory, Poetry, Queer Studies, Visual Culture

Dissertation: The Strains of Confessional Poetry: The Burdens, Blunders, and Blights of Self-Disclosure

Supervisor: W.Koestenbaum

Committee: N.K.Miller, M.A. Caws

Lara Rossana Rodriguez (also known as Lara Mimosa Montes) has poems and essays appearing in Fence, Triple Canopy, BOMB, The Third Rail, and elsewhere. She is basically done writing her dissertation, “The Strains of Confessional Poetry: The Burdens, Blunders, and Blights of Self-Disclosure.” Her first book, The Somnambulist, is forthcoming from Horse Less Press. She was born in the Bronx.