Paula M. L. Moya is the Daily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of the Humanities at Stanford University; Professor of English, and, by courtesy, of Iberian and Latin American Cultures; and the Burton J. and Deedee McMurtry University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.
Moya’s teaching and research focus on twentieth-century and early twenty-first century literary studies, feminist theory, critical theory, narrative theory, interdisciplinary approaches to race and ethnicity, especially Chicanx and U.S. Latinx studies. She is the author of The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism (Stanford UP 2016) and Learning From Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles (UC Press 2002) and has co-edited three collections of original essays, Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century (W.W. Norton, Inc. 2010), Identity Politics Reconsidered (Palgrave 2006) and Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism (UC Press 2000).