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Andrea O'Reilly Herrera is a Professor of Literature and Co-Director of the Women's and Ethnic Studies (WEST) Program, a recently developed major at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
	O'Reilly Herrera is a published poet and the author of a number of critical essays on writers ranging from Charlotte Brontë and Marguerite Duras to Cristina García; and editor of the essay collection Family Matters in the British and American Novel (Popular Press, 1997) and the literary collection A Secret Weavers Anthology (White Pine Press, 1998), which features the work of contemporary Latin American women writer. Her most recent publications include a collection of testimonial expressions drawn from the Cuban exile community and their children residing in the United States ( ReMembering Cuba: Legacy of a Diaspora , University of Texas Press, 2001); a novel (The Pearl of the Antilles, Bilingual/Review Press, 2001); an edited collection of essays (Cuba : Idea of a Nation Displaced , SUNY Press, 2007; and the co-edited textbook The Matrix Reader: Examining the Dynamics of Oppression and Privilege (McGraw Hill, 2008), which presents an intersectional approach to the study of race, class, gender, and sexuality. She is currently working on a monograph tentatively titled Setting the Tent Against the House: Cuban Artists in Diaspora, which focuses on the traveling exhibition Café (forthcoming, University of Texas Press ).

Andrea O'Reilly Herrera is a Professor of Literature and Co-Director of the Women's and Ethnic Studies (WEST) Program, a recently developed major at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

O'Reilly Herrera is a published poet and the author of a number of critical essays on writers ranging from Charlotte Brontë and Marguerite Duras to Cristina García; and editor of the essay collection Family Matters in the British and American Novel (Popular Press, 1997) and the literary collection A Secret Weavers Anthology (White Pine Press, 1998), which features the work of contemporary Latin American women writer.

Her most recent publications include a collection of testimonial expressions drawn from the Cuban exile community and their children residing in the United States ( ReMembering Cuba: Legacy of a Diaspora , University of Texas Press, 2001); a novel (The Pearl of the Antilles, Bilingual/Review Press, 2001); an edited collection of essays (Cuba : Idea of a Nation Displaced , SUNY Press, 2007; and the co-edited textbook The Matrix Reader: Examining the Dynamics of Oppression and Privilege (McGraw Hill, 2008), which presents an intersectional approach to the study of race, class, gender, and sexuality.

She is currently working on a monograph tentatively titled Setting the Tent Against the House: Cuban Artists in Diaspora, which focuses on the traveling exhibition Café (forthcoming, University of Texas Press ).