#  WGS Authors Nominated for Lammy Awards  

 





March 07, 2019

 

 

 WGS **[Professor Keridwen Luis](/people/keridwen-luis)** and graduate secondary field alum **[Professor Lyndon Gill](https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/aads/faculty/lkg236)** (U Texas) have both been nominated for Lambda Literary awards in the LGBTQ Studies category.

   ![Professors Keridwen Luis and Lyndon Gill and their Lammy award-nominated books](/sites/g/files/omnuum8271/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/wgs/files/lammies2019.jpg?itok=VDxktFES) 

 

 Professor Luis’s [Herlands: Exploring the Women’s Land Movement in the United States](https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/herlands)*, published in 2018 by the University of Minnesota press, examines how women-only communities provide spaces for new forms of culture, sociality, gender, and sexuality. Professor Gill’s *Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean*, which foregrounds queer histories of Carnival, calypso, and HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, was published in 2018 by Duke University Press.

 First presented in 1989, [the Lambda Literary Awards](https://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/news/03/07/31st-annual-lammy-finalists/), commonly known as the Lammies, honor the best LGBTQ books of the year. The 2019 awards will be presented at a ceremony and gala in New York City on Monday, June 3.

 Please join us in congratulating Professors Luis and Gill on their nominations!



 

 

 



 

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