Agnes Lugo-Ortiz

University of Chicago

09/01/2017-06/03/2018

Agnes Lugo-Ortiz is associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures at the University of Chicago. She has published on Cuban biography, the concept of the archive, and queer writing in the Caribbean. Among other works, she is the author of Identidades imaginadas: Biografía y nacionalidad en el horizonte de la guerra (Cuba, 1860-1898) and co-editor of Herencia: The Anthology of US Hispanic Writing (2001) and (with Angela Rosenthal) of Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World (2014). At the Clark, she is advancing a book project exploring the relationships between visual culture and plantation slavery in colonial Cuba.