Dr. Agnes Lugo Ortiz

Associate Professor

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Biography

Agnes Lugo-Ortiz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. She specializes in Nineteenth-century Latin American literatures and Caribbean cultural histories. Her research interests focus on the intersections of culture and politics, slavery, and racial formations, examining how these elements influence visuality and the epistemologies of power dynamics. Her early work analyzed literature as a means to articulate national identity within the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, highlighting aesthetic forms that contributed to anti-colonial movements and incorporated gender and desire. She is the author of 'Identidades imaginadas: Biografía y nacionalidad en el horizonte de la guerra' and has co-edited volumes on slave portraiture and visual culture. Lugo-Ortiz's current book project, 'The Plantation Gaze: Slavery Visual Culture in Colonial Cuba (1727–1886),' further explores visual culture amid the context of plantation slavery. She has been involved with the Recovering U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project and co-founded the digital journal 'Categoría Cinco: Revista de Política y Cultura.'

Research Interests

Nineteenth-Century Latin American Literatures Caribbean Cultural Histories Visual Culture Slavery Racial Formations

Experience

Associate Professor

2020-01-01 — Present

University of Chicago • Chicago, IL

Teaching and researching Latin American and Caribbean literatures and cultures.

Professor

2015-01-01 — 2019-12-31

Northwestern University • Evanston, IL

Research and teaching in the fields of literature and culture.

Professor

2010-01-01 — 2014-12-31

Dartmouth College • Hanover, NH

Teaching Latin American literature and introductory courses.

Courses

Latin American Literatures and Cultures: Colonial 19th-Century Latin American Literatures and Cultures: 20th 21st Centuries Poetry, Nation and Citizenship in 19th Century Hispanoamerica Literatures of the Hispano-Caribbean in the 20th Century Afro-Caribbean Poetics Literature and National Formation in Hispanoamerica (19th Century) Fin-de-Siècle, Modernization, Culture, Exile: The Case of José Martí Text/Image/Territory in Nineteenth-Century Latin America Sound, Literature and Music in Contemporary Caribbean Imperialism, Nation and Culture in the Hispano-Caribbean (20th Century) Abolitionist Fictions of the Hispano-Caribbean Visual Culture and Slavery in Ibero-America Literature and Ideas in the Hispano-Caribbean: The 19th Century

Requirements for University of Chicago

Doctorate Program
Requirements
TOEFL
Listening
Required:26
Reading
Required:26
Writing
Required:26
Speaking
Required:26
Total
Required:104
IELTS
Listening
Required:7
Reading
Required:7
Writing
Required:7
Speaking
Required:7
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
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Specialization Notes

Department of Philosophy