Juan Pedro Lamata

Juan, on a sunny day
College of Arts and Letters
Department of English
Office ETA-629
Email
jlamata2@calstatela.edu

 

 

RESEARCH AND TEACHING

Juan Pedro Lamata is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at California State University-Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. in Literature from Stanford University in 2020. Dr. Lamata specializes in early modern literature in English and Spanish, with a special focus on the interplay between emergent capitalist social relations and literary form.

He is currently working on a manuscript titled Masterless Renaissance: Freedom in the Double Sense from Utopia to Hell. This project attends to the undertheorized event and discourse of "masterlessness," the early modern period's central vocabulary for understanding the rise of an itinerant, wage-laboring proletariat. Dr. Lamata's work has appeared in Renaissance Studies and Intersectionalities of Class in Early Modern English Drama, a peer-reviewed collection. He has taught courses such as "Shakespeare/Marx," "Renaissance Boderderlands," "Early Modern Literature and Early Capital," and "Shakespeare and Popular Culture." A one-time community organizer and current union and community activist, Dr. Lamata is committed to the right of all people to study, work, research, and live with dignity, and he hopes to one day see our very own CSULA leading the way as a true "People's University."

PUBLICATIONS

  • Manuscript in progress: Masterless Renaissance: Freedom in the Double Sense from Utopia to Hell.
  • "'Portraiture[s] of Schism": The Trans-Rogue-Royalism of Catalina/Antonio de Erauso and Mary/Jack Frith." Intersectionalities of Class in Early Modern English Drama, edited by Ronda Arab and Laurie Ellinghausen, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp. 93-110.
  • "[A]ltered that a litle which before I had written”: how Margaret Hoby wrote and rewrote her manuscript," Renaissance Studies, Oct. 2023. Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.12910.
  • Review of The Jew of Malta: A Norton Critical Edition, edited by Lloyd Edward Kermode. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, vol. 29, no. 2, Fall 2022.

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

  • Project Development Grant, American Council of Learned Societies (2022)
  • Francis Bacon Society Short-Term Fellowship at the Huntington Library (2021)
  • Center Theatre Group Student Enrichment Grant (2021)