Angel Lozada
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Ángel Luis Lozada Novalés (Ángel Lozada) is a Puerto Rican
novelist, activist, educator and scholar.
, in 1968. He has a Bachelors in Sciences from The George Washington University (1990) and a Masters in Science from Johns Hopkins University
(1998). He is a Ph. D. candidate in Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University
under the supervision of Prof. Eduardo Subirats Rüggeberg. He has studied creative writing with Chilean author Diamela Eltit
. He has published two novels, La Patografía and No quiero quedarme sola y vacía.
Ángel Lozada was a Jesuit from the Maryland Province (1994–1996). He has been initiated in several African American religious traditions, and is a Palero (since 1998) and a Santero priest (since 2000), and has studied with several Palería, Ifá
and Santería
priests in New York City.
Lozada is currently writing two novels, The Dynasty of the Shells and Who Is Afraid of Frigidette Von Dyke?
Lozada now lives in Pittsburgh, but formerly lived in New York City.
Lozada's controversial writings focus on marginalized subjects, animalization, colonization, transculturation, the Puerto Rican Diaspora, and recently, on the relationships between writing, schizophrenia, power and culture as they are deployed via academic discourses and languages. He has written extensively about the experiences of the Puerto Rican Gay subject within the larger context of postmodern, postindustrial American society.
Lozada is HIV-positive and has talked and written openly and explicitly about his health condition in his fiction and interviews.
Puerto Rican people
A Puerto Rican is a person who was born in Puerto Rico.Puerto Ricans born and raised in the continental United States are also sometimes referred to as Puerto Ricans, although they were not born in Puerto Rico...
novelist, activist, educator and scholar.
Early life
He was born in Mayagüez, Puerto RicoPuerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
, in 1968. He has a Bachelors in Sciences from The George Washington University (1990) and a Masters in Science from Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
(1998). He is a Ph. D. candidate in Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
under the supervision of Prof. Eduardo Subirats Rüggeberg. He has studied creative writing with Chilean author Diamela Eltit
Diamela Eltit
Diamela Eltit is a writer and a Spanish professor from Chile. She currently holds a teaching appointment at New York University, where she teaches creative writing....
. He has published two novels, La Patografía and No quiero quedarme sola y vacía.
Ángel Lozada was a Jesuit from the Maryland Province (1994–1996). He has been initiated in several African American religious traditions, and is a Palero (since 1998) and a Santero priest (since 2000), and has studied with several Palería, Ifá
Ifá
Ifá refers to the system of divination and the verses of the literary corpus known as the Odú Ifá. Yoruba religion identifies Orunmila as the Grand Priest; as that which revealed Oracle divinity to the world...
and Santería
Santería
Santería is a syncretic religion of West African and Caribbean origin influenced by Roman Catholic Christianity, also known as Regla de Ocha, La Regla Lucumi, or Lukumi. Its liturgical language, a dialect of Yoruba, is also known as Lucumi....
priests in New York City.
Lozada is currently writing two novels, The Dynasty of the Shells and Who Is Afraid of Frigidette Von Dyke?
Lozada now lives in Pittsburgh, but formerly lived in New York City.
Lozada's controversial writings focus on marginalized subjects, animalization, colonization, transculturation, the Puerto Rican Diaspora, and recently, on the relationships between writing, schizophrenia, power and culture as they are deployed via academic discourses and languages. He has written extensively about the experiences of the Puerto Rican Gay subject within the larger context of postmodern, postindustrial American society.
Lozada is HIV-positive and has talked and written openly and explicitly about his health condition in his fiction and interviews.