Alexandra Lossada works on immigration, citizenship, and language in contemporary American ethnic literatures, especially in Latinx and Chicanx writing. Her current manuscript project, tentatively entitled The Interpreter of Crimmigration and Detention, reevaluates the figure and the role of the interpreter in post-9/11 literary works that depict detention, deportation, and/or family separation via the legal apparatus of crimmigration, or the intersection of criminal law with immigration law. Her work has recently been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowship for 2025-2026.
Before joining Berkeley, Lossada worked as an assistant professor of English at Berry College (2022-2025). She received her PhD in English at the Johns Hopkins University in 2022.
