Dr. Juan-Moreno received a B.A. from the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) in 2008, and Ph.D.s from UIB and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2015 and 2016, respectively. She has been at Clark since 2015.

Lola’s research focuses on contemporary Spanish poetry and cinema, food studies, and works by women writers and filmmakers published or released after the year 2000. In her current project, she analyzes alliances between gastronomy, film, and poetry in Peninsular Spanish culture in the 21st century. In this work, she reflects on the symbolic value of food as a vehicle to represent the idiosyncrasies of this culture and the particularities of the individuals that comprise it. 

At Clark University Dr. Juan-Moreno teaches all levels of Spanish language as well as contemporary Hispanic literature, culture, and cinema. She also serves as the Spanish Program Coordinator and as the director and coordinator of the HCH Project, which she created along with undergraduate students in 2016. HCH is a bi-directional exchange between students at Clark University and Worcester Public Schools students. It is a multigenerational collaborative learning space where participants grow and learn from each other culturally, linguistically, and personally through an exploration of Hispanic culture. Dr. Juan-Moreno is also the founder and co-director of the International Seminar on Literature and Sin, an annual plurilingual and multidisciplinary conference that, from 2011 to 2019, analyzed the presence of the deadly sins in art and literature. She has both national and international publications. Her Ph.D. dissertation from UIB was on the Spanish poet Aurora Luque, her dissertation from UMass-Amherst focused on food, film, and poetry.