She received her PhD from Columbia University. Her essays have appeared in publications such as Journal of American Studies, Comparative American Studies, American Literature, and the forthcoming Literature of Hispanic Carribbean Migration. She is acting director of the Women and Gender Studies Program at Rutgers and cofounder of the Immigrant Rights Collective. Lomas received a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to research and write Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities.