Professor Lara joined the Modern Languages faculty in 2006.  She is currently completing her doctoral studies at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.  Her areas of interest is Colonial Literature and Critical Theory.  She is originally from Mexico.  She attended the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, where she received her undergraduate degree in Sociology with a thesis on Auguste Comte.  She came to the U.S. for her graduate studies in Spanish.  She attended the University of Texas at El Paso where she received the M.A. in Spanish with the thesis "Alboroto y motín de la ciudad de México de don Carlos de Siguenza y Góngora."  Presently she is working on her dissertation "El discurso subversivo en la narrativa de Fernández de Lizardi". 

She has worked at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, teaching Mexican History, Sociological Theory, Advanced Writing, Contemporary Mexican History, and Medieval Literature.  She also was in charge of the cultural section of a local newspaper "Diálogo" in Ciudad Juárez, where she collaborated on different topics.  She participated in a radio program commenting on Democracy in Mexico.  She has published short fiction in "El Acordeón" in Ciudad Juárez and articles on economical and social issues in Mexico in the "Revista Sociológica" and a local newspaper "Ya".
 
Prior to arriving at FMU, she taught at Methodist College (Fayetteville, N.C) and Fayetteville State University.