Antonio Viego, Associate Professor of Literature

Contact Info:

Office Location:	05 Art Museum
Office Phone:	+1 919 668 2687
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2025):

• LIT 350.01, BRAINS, EVERYWHERE Synopsis

  Friedl Bdg 102, WF 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

  (also cross-listed as GSF 350.01, LSGS 350.01, NEUROSCI 250.01, ROMST 350.01)

• LIT 692S.01, THE MOTHER-CHILD RELATION Synopsis

  Crowell 108, Th 03:05 PM-05:35 PM

Education:

Ph.D.	University of Pennsylvania	1999
B.A.	Swarthmore College	1989

Specialties:

Spanish
American Literature
Modern and Contemporary
Critical Theory
Comparative Literature
Latino Studies
Latin-American Studies
Cultural Studies
Gender Studies, Feminism, Women Studies, Queer Studies
Psychoanalysis, Psychology
Film, Media and Visual Studies
Critical Theory, Philosophy

Research Interests: Latino/a Literatures, Latino/a Studies, Critical Race Studies, and Gender & Sexuality

Current projects: Psychoanalytic theory and Latino/a Identities/Histories

Latino/a studies, Queer/Lesbian/Gay studies, Twentieth Century American Literatures, Critical Race Theory, Chicana Feminist Theory, Comparative Ethnicities, Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory

Areas of Interest:

Latino/a political and social movements
Latino/a literatures
Queer/Gay/Lesbian Theory
Queer/Gay/Lesbian History

Keywords:

Latino/a • Sexuality • Gender • Psychoanalytic Theory

Current Ph.D. Students  

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Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Viego, A, Eating brains: Latinx barrios, psychoanalysis and neuroscience, in Psychoanalysis in the Barrios Race Class and the Unconscious (December, 2018), pp. 97-118, ISBN 9781138346383
2. Viego, A, LatinX and the neurologization of self, Cultural Dynamics, vol. 29 no. 3 (August, 2017), pp. 160-176 [doi]  [abs]
3. Viego, A, Review of "Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity" by E. Patrick Johnson, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 11 no. 1 (July, 2015), pp. 135-138, Duke University Press, ISSN 1527-9375
4. Viego, A, Review of "The Puerto Rican Syndrome" by Patricia Gherovici, Latino Studies, vol. 3 (July, 2015), pp. 165-169, Palgrave Macmillan, ISSN 1476-3443
5. Viego, A, The Madness of Curing, Dossier on Robyn Wiegman's Object Lessons, edited by Zahid R. Chaudhary, Feminist Formations, vol. 25 no. 3 (Winter, 2013), pp. 154-59, The Johns Hopkins University Press, ISSN 2151-7363  [abs]