Jennifer M. Lozano

Jennifer Lozano is Associate Professor of English and affiliate faculty in the Gender Studies and Resource Center at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW). Her research and teaching examine the intersection of narrative culture--literature, film, digital media--and national, cultural, and gendered borders in 21st century creative economies. She is especially interested in how Latinx and other artists of color employ narrative, aesthetic, or design techniques to enact imaginative narratives of belonging across cultural and geopolitical divides.

Jennifer is currently working on a book project, Latinx Multimedia Life Writing and Feminist Placemaking from the Movement to the Digital Era (Ohio State University Press, 2026), that explores the way Latinx life writing is currently unfolding across multiple media platforms including podcasts, digital archives, and social media platforms while remaining in dialogue with traditional literary culture. This project tracks multimedia and multigenre life writing from Chicana, Latina, and women of color feminist work into the 21st century, and shows how it engages in placemaking that extends belonging and the pleasure of art and knowledge production to those most marginalized by media industries.

Jennifer is the co-editor for Latinx Topics at Reviews in Digital Humanities (2023-2026) and an executive board member of the Digital Humanities Collaborative of North Carolina (2021-2024).

She is also a recipient of the Mellon-funded Digital Ethnic Futures Capacity Building Grant (2022-2023) and Teaching Fellowship (2021-2022), which supports her work at the intersection of ethnic studies and digital humanities.

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