Academic Books
Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty (SUNY Press – Afro Latinx Futures Series, 2020)
Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic (Rutgers University Press – Critical Caribbean Studies Series, 2020)
Digital Humanities Projects
Caribbean Women Healers: Decolonizing Knowledge within Afro-Indigenous Traditions
**in collaboration with Alai Reyes Santos and the University of Oregon Digital Scholarship Center**
Journal Articles:
Lara, Ana-Maurine. “Strategic Universalisms and Dominican LGBT Activist Struggles for Civil and Human Rights.” Small Axe:A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 22, no. 2 (56) (2018): 99-114.
Lara, Ana-Maurine & Alaí Reyes Santos. “Mangú y Mofongo: Dominican-Puerto Rican Interethnic Families in New York City” Center for Puerto Rican Studies Journal, vol. 30, number 1 (Spring 2018): pp 10 – 43.
Lara, Ana-Maurine. “I Wanted to Be More of a Person: Conjuring [Afro] [Latinx] [Queer] Futures.” Bilingual Review. Volume 33, Number 4 (January 2017): 1-14.
Lara, Ana-Maurine. “A Smarting Wound: Afro-Dominicanidad and the Fight against Racist Xenophobia in the Dominican Republic” Feminist Review. Volume 43, Number 2 (2017): 468-484.
Lara, Ana-Maurine. “’Hay que tener una Fortaleza fuerte’: Catholic Coloniality, Sexual Terror and Trans Sobrevivencia in the Dominican Republic” Sargasso. Volume I & II (2014-15): 75-92.
Lara, Ana-Maurine. “Of Unexplained Presences, Flying Ife Heads, Vampires, Sweat, Zombis and Legbas: A Meditation on Black Queer Aesthetics” GLQ 18:2, April 2012: 347-360.
Lara, Ana-Maurine. “Vudú in the Dominican Republic: Resistance and Healing.” Phoebe Journal of Gender & Cultural Critiques, Volume 17, number 1 (Spring 2005): 1 – 20.
Lara, Ana-Maurine. “Spirit of the Ancestors : the Photographic Works of Albert Chong and Wura-Natasha Ogunji.” Canadian Woman Studies Journal, Volume 23, number 2 (Winter 2004): 15-20.
Anthology Articles:
Lara, Ana-Maurine “i think i might be broken: The Reconstitution of Black Atlantic Bodies and Memories in Sharon Bridgforth’s Delta Dandi.” in Emilia María Duran-Almarza & Esther Álvarez López (eds.) Diasporic Women’s Writing of the Black Atlantic: (En)gendering Literature and Performance. New York, NY: Routledge. Oct 2013: 34-51.
Lara, Ana-Maurine. “Bodies and Memories: Afro-Latina Identities in Motion” in Marta Moreno Vega, Marinieves Alba, and Yvette Modestin (eds). Global Afro-Latino and Caribbean Initiative Anthology. Arte Público Press, May 2012: 23 – 47.
Lara, Ana-Maurine” Cimmaronas, Ciguapas and Señoras: Hair, Beauty and National Identity in the Dominican Republic.” in Regina Spellers & Kimberly Moffit (eds.) Blackberries and Redbones: Critical Articulations of Black Hair/Body Politics in Africana Communities. Hampton Press, 2010: 98-121.
Lara, Ana M. “Uncovering Mirrors: Afro-Latina Lesbian Subjects” in Miriam Jiménez Román & Juan Flores (eds.) AfroLatin@s in the U.S.: A Reader, Duke University Press, August 2010: 298 – 313.
Lara, Ana M. “A Change of Manta” in Louis G Mendoza & Toni Nelson Herrera (eds.), Telling Tongues: A Latino Anthology on Language Experience. RedSalmonArts Press, December 2006: 67-80.