Biography

Alexander Lalama earned his Ph.D. in English from Claremont Graduate University He also holds an M.A. in English from Claremont Graduate Univeristy, and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Southern California. His dissertation, ¡¿Y Que?!: Punks, Goths, and Musical Outsiders in Latinx Literature and Popular Culture, focuses on Latinxs in literature and popular culture that affiliate themselves with outsider music subcultures and practices, revealing the potential power of hybridizing and blurring the lines between these subcultures and parent Latinx cultures, creating new lexicons and modes of being that challenge patriarchal, colonial, racial, and gender norms.

His work has appeared in Latina Outsiders: Remaking Latina Identity (Routledge 2019) and Hollywood Heroines: The Most Influential Women in Film History (ABC-CLIO 2018), amongst other publications. He is currently completing an article for Contemporary Young Adult Literature and the Fashioning of Black & Brown Youth (University Press of Mississippi, forthcoming).