Lourdes Torres

Lourdes Torres is Vincent de Paul Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at DePaul University where she is also affiliate faculty in Critical Ethnic Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies. She served as editor-in-chief of Latino Studies from 2012 to 2023 and is co-series editor of the Global Latin/o American Series of the University of Ohio Press. Her research and teaching interests include sociolinguistics, Spanish in the U.S., and queer Latinidades. She is the author of Puerto Rican Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study of a New York Suburb, co-author of Spanish in Chicago and co-editor of Latino Studies: A 20th Anniversary Reader, Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism, and Tortilleras: Hispanic and the Latina Lesbian Expressions. She is currently working on a history of LLEGÓ, The National Latino/a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Organization that ran from 1987 to 2004 and advocated for queer Latinx issues.