Assistant Professor, Spanish
World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Contact
e.lombardcabrera@ccsu.edu
Office
Willard-DiLoreto Hall
403 16
Monday
2:00 am - 3:00 am
Tuesday
10:00 am - 1:00 am
Wednesday
2:00 am - 3:00 am
Biography

Eilyn Lombard is an assistant professor of Spanish at Central Connecticut State University. She received her PhD in Latin American and Caribbean Literature and Cultures from the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on strategies of defiance embedded in Latin American and Caribbean poetry expanded into contemporary forms of protest and the intersections with performance and digital media.

She currently heads the Gender, Diversity and Strategic Alliances Coordination at Iniciativa AC, a program focused on promoting the protection of the human rights of Cuban cis women, trans people and non-binary people.

She is also the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of Candela Review, a peer-reviewed and open-access Afro-Feminist journal. 

Publications, Research & Presentations

Peer-reviewed articles:

“Dos veces son el mínimo. Aproximaciones feministas a sujetos femeninos en La caja de Bagdad,

de Reina María Rodríguez”, Nerter, vol. 40, 2024, pp. 38-44. ISSN 1575-8621.

“More than a place, exile is a literary genre”: An Interview with Reina María Rodríguez, Latin American Literature Today, no. 17, June 2021. Web.

“Estados de guerra: performance dentro del libro,” LLJournal. The Journal of the Students of the Ph.D. Program inLatin American, Iberian and Latino Studies, Vol. 14 (2), 2019.

“Entre la lucidez y la locura: un fantasma recorre la poesía de Leopoldo María Panero (Reflexiones en torno a los libros escritos entre 1979 y 1980),” Yzur, October 2018: 7-15. Web. 

“Me hablabas de una trampa del lenguaje: Indicios de humor en la performance Alejandra Pizarnik,” Inti, Spring-Fall 2018: 222-34.

“¿Dónde empieza la memoria? Reflexiones a propósito de la serie Nuestros juguetes, de Juan Carlos Alom,” TheQuiet Corner Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 2, Iss. 1, 2018. Web. Available at: https://opencommons.uconn.edu/tqc/vol2/iss1/3.

Book chapters:

“Performance(s) de restauración de la vida en estados de muerte. Análisis del cuaderno de poesía

Estados de guerra de Luis Eligio Pérez Meriño,” Editorial Hypermedia, 2022.

Translations:

“Sal de magnesio.” (Selection of Mara Pastor´s book), The River Rail-The Brooklyn Rail, November 2021.

Poetry Books:

tres veces, (original work of poetry), Iliada Ediciones, Berlín, 2023.

Días de pelea, (original work of poetry), Playa Sucia, Puerto Rico,2023.

Bienvenido a Facebook, (original work of poetry), Letras Cubanas, La Habana, 2021. Las tierras rojas (original work of poetry), Ediciones Mecenas, Cienfuegos, 2019.

Todas las diosas fatigadas (original work of poetry), Ediciones La Luz, Holguín, 2011. Suelen ser frágiles las muchachas sobre el puente, (original work of poetry) Reina del Mar Editores, 2005.