Lois Zamora

Lois Parkinson Zamora is professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Houston,
where she holds a Moores Distinguished Professorship. She frequently writes about the visual arts
and their relationship to literature, most recently in The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and
Latin American Fiction, published by University of Chicago Press, and Baroque New Worlds: Representation,
Transculturation, Counterconquest, co-edited with Monika Kaup and published by Duke
University Press.