Professor Dr. Raúl Coronado

Biography

Raúl Coronado is an Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His teaching and research interests focus on Latina/o literary intellectual history, exploring the colonial period and the 1940s. He reconsiders literature within a transnational and hemispheric framework of the Americas, particularly as Latina/o literature emerged during the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s and 70s. His work begins in the late eighteenth century, examining how Spanish Americans—including Mexicans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Venezuelans, and Colombians—utilized the printing press in the U.S. to advocate for independence in Spanish American countries. Coronado analyzes the vibrant print culture of the U.S. Southwest in the nineteenth century, where texts reflecting modern ideas debated citizenship and power dynamics started to take shape. His research seeks to dismantle barriers between U.S. and Latin American literary intellectual histories by engaging with themes of modernity and colonialism. Currently, he is investigating the histories of sexuality and their connections to Latina/o intellectual and literary history, particularly within the comparative history of writing in the colonial 19th century Americas.

Research Interests