Antonio Viego, Associate Professor of Literature

Teaching (Fall 2012):

LIT 390.07, SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE Synopsis
Friedl Bdg 240, TuTh 03:05 PM-04:20 PM
(also cross-listed as LSGS 290.01, SXL 290.02, WOMENST 290.06)
LIT 690.06, SPECIAL TOPIS IN LITERATURE Synopsis
Carr 125, W 01:40 PM-04:10 PM
(also cross-listed as LSGS 690.01, WOMENST 590.01)

Education:

PhD in English	University of Pennsylvania	1999
BA	Swarthmore College	1989

Specialties:: Spanish
American Literature
Modern and Contemporary
Critical Theory
Latino Studies
Comparative Literature
Cultural Studies
Latin-American 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

Recent Publications

A. Viego, "The Life of the Undead: Biopower, Latino Anxiety, and the epidemiological paradox", Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, vol. 19 no. 2 (July, 2010), pp. 131-148, Routledge
Wounded Chicana Cartographies: Diagnosing Injury and Maligning Politicized Identities, in Geographies of Latinidad, edited by Matt Garcia (2008), Durham: Duke University Press
A. Viego, "Hysterical Ties, Chicano/a Amnesia and the Sinthomestiza Subject", Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies (2008)
A. Viego, Dead Subjects: Toward a Politics of Loss in Latino Studies (2007), Duke University Press
A. Viego, Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity by E. Patrick Johnson, GLQ (Fall, 2004)