Dr. Lucía M. Montás graduated from the University of Florida (BA/MA 2009) and the University of Kentucky (MA, PhD) in 2018. She has served as a Lecturer of Spanish at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. She is currently a Senior Lecturer of Spanish in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of New Hampshire where she teaches Intermediate Spanish, Spanish for Business professionals, Introduction to Latin American Culture, and Hispanic Cultural Studies.
Her research is interdisciplinary and focuses on Urban Cultural Studies and Contemporary Latin American literature with an emphasis on Caribbean women writers. Her dissertation: "La ciudad de las letradas: Reescribiendo Santo Domingo en la narrativa femenina urbana dominicana del nuevo milenio" (2018) examines the representation of the city and everyday urban life in texts written by contemporary Dominican female writers. These Dominican women writers imagine and depict the city of Santo Domingo by redefining the urban model and expressing social criticism through the themes of gentrification, violence, memory, and social inequality.
Currently, she is interested in exploring the works of other Latin American Women Writers from Nicaragua and Colombia.
Her work has been published in Cuadrivium: Revista del Departamento de Español UPR Humacao and Voces del Caribe among other interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals.
