Anne Lambright
Department Head and Professor of Hispanic Studies
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Department of Modern Languages
Carnegie Mellon University
341 Posner Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Bio
Grounded in a deep belief in the transformative power of art and the humanities to advance social justice and human rights, I am drawn to creative cultural production—literature, film, performance, and the visual arts—as sites of resistance, where dominant culture is questioned and alternative visions of individual subjectivity and collective life articulated. My research centers on race and ethnicity in Andean literature and culture, particularly the place of indigenous and indigenous-mestizo peoples and cultures in Peruvian national discourse and identity. My monograph, Creating the Hybrid Intellectual (Bucknell UP, 2007), is the first major English-language study of Peruvian indigenista writer, José María Arguedas. My co-edited volume, Unfolding the City (U of Minnesota, 2007), gathers scholarship, and explores Latin American women’s portraits of urban life. Andean Truths: Transitional Justice, Ethnicity, and Cultural Production in Post-Shining Path Peru (Liverpool UP, 2015), winner of the MLA’s Katherine Singer Kovacs prize, studies how literature and the arts challenge the dominant narrative of national peace and reconciliation in Peru, after two decades of civil war, as constructed by Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Currently, I am completing a critical translation of human rights plays by Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani, which aims to provide English-speaking audiences access to and nuanced understanding of this renowned Peruvian theater collective.
Areas of Interest
- Andean Literature and Culture
- Human Rights and Social Justice
- Critical Transnational Indigenous and Native American Studies
- Translation Theory and Practice
- Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture
Selected Awards and Honors
- Modern Language Association’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for Outstanding Book on Latin America or Spain. For Andean Truths, 2016.
- Charles A. Dana Research Professorship, Trinity College, 2015-2017.
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, August 2012-August 2013.
- External Residential Faculty Fellowship, University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, August 2010-May 2011.
- Millicent C. McIntosh Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, June 2007-2009
Selected Community, University, and Professional Service
- Co-director, Hospitality Initiative, Center for the Arts in Society, CMU, 2023-2026
- Co-Chair, Associate Dean for Student Success search, CMU, Spring 2022
- ACLS-Mellon Leadership Institute for a New Academy (LINA), January-September 2023
- Member, Editorial Board Committee on Indigenous Languages and Literatures, Chasqui, March 2023-present
- Member, Editorial Board, PMLA, July 2021-June 2023.
- Flora Tristan Book Prize Jury, Peru Section of Latin American Studies Association, 2021
Selected Publications
- Lambright, A. (2015)."Andean Truths: Transitional Justice, Ethnicity, and Cultural Production in Post-Shining Path Peru." Liverpool University Press.
- Lambright, A. (2007). "Creating the Hybrid Intellectual: Subject, Space, and the Feminine in the Narrative of José María Arguedas." Bucknell University Press.
- Lambright, A. (2007). "Unfolding the City: Women Write the City in Latin America." Co-edited and Introduction with Elisabeth Guerrero. University of Minnesota Press.
- Lambright, A. (2019). "Punto y aparte: Spanish in Review, Moving Toward Fluency. An intermediate-level Spanish textbook and course program, with Sharon Foerster." McGraw Hill, First edition 1999. Second edition 2003. Third edition 2006. Fourth edition 2010. Fifth edition 2014. Sixth edition 2019.
- “Yuyachkani’s Andinismo: Performing (towards) a Poetics of Race.” in Poetics of Race in Latin America, Mabel Moraña, ed., Anthem Press, 2022. 169-184.