Author: Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo

Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo is a Professor of Ethnic Studies in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University.  Her books Feminism after 9/11: Women’s Bodies as Cultural and Political Threat (Palgrave MacMillan 2017), Project(ing) 9/11: Race, Gender, and Citizenship in recent Hollywood Films (Rowman and Littlefield 2014), and Containing (Un)American Bodies: Race, Sexuality, and Post-9/11 Constructions of Citizenship (Rodopi 2010) were co-authored with Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo. Her edited collection A New Kind of Containment: “The War on Terror,” Race, and Sexuality (Rodopi 2009) was also co-edited with Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo, and her book Animating Difference:  Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Films for Children (Rowman and Littlefield 2010), was co-authored with C. Richard King and Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo. Dr. Lugo-Lugo has also published numerous articles and book chapters on cultural productions of 9/11, and cultural constructions of race, culture, citizenship, immigration, and gender, as well as Latinas/os in US popular culture.