Amelia Maria de la Luz Montes

Amelia María de la Luz Montes is an associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has a particular interest in the nineteenth-century Mexican-American author, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, and has edited and introduced a new edition of Ruiz de Burton’s first novel, Who Would Have Thought It? Montes earned a BA at Loyola Marymount University, and then an MA and a PhD at the University of Denver. She teaches in a number of areas, including Latina literature, LGBT literature, creative writing, and theories of identity.

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