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Antonio Viego, Associate Professor; Literature and Romance Studies; Spanish

Antonio Viego

Please note: Antonio has left the "Romance Studies" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Contact Info:
Office Location:  101D Friedl Building (east campus)
Office Phone:  919-668-2687
Email Address: send me a message

Teaching (Spring 2010):

  • LSGS 100S.01, INTRO TO LATINO/A STUDIES Synopsis
    Perkins 2-065, MW 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
  • SPANISH 120S.01, INTRO TO LATINO/A STUDIES Synopsis
    Perkins 2-065, MW 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
  • LIT 162ES.01, INTRO TO LATINO/A STUDIES Synopsis
    Perkins 2-065, MW 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
  • AAAS 199S.07, INTRO TO LATINO/A STUDIES
    Perkins 2-065, MW 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
Office Hours:

Wednesday: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Education:

PhD in EnglishUniversity of Pennsylvania1999
BASwarthmore College1989
Specialties:

Spanish
Research Interests:

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, Psychoanalytic Theory

Areas of Interest:

Latino/a political movements
Latino/a literatures
Queer/Gay/Lesbian Theory
Gay/Lesbian History
Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory
Cuban-American Literature
20th Century Cuban History

Keywords:

Latino/a • Sexuality • Gender • Psychoanalytic Theory

Current Ph.D. Students  

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Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. 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
  2. Wounded Chicana Cartographies: Diagnosing Injury and Maligning Politicized Identities, in Geographies of Latinidad, edited by Matt Garcia (2008), Durham: Duke University Press
  3. A. Viego, "Hysterical Ties, Chicano/a Amnesia and the Sinthomestiza Subject", Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies (2008)
  4. A. Viego, Dead Subjects: Toward a Politics of Loss in Latino Studies (2007), Duke University Press
  5. A. Viego, Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity by E. Patrick Johnson, GLQ (Fall, 2004)
Conferences Organized

  • The Seeds of Change: Latino/as in the Here and Now, February 2003  
  • The Color of Hegemony: Latino/as in North Carolina, February 2002  
Antonio Viego received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999. He has written essays on Chicana/o video and film, contemporary lesbian and gay Chicana/o & Latina/o literatures and Chicana feminist theory. He teaches courses on Cuban-American literature, Chicana/o & Latina/o cultural studies, queer ethnic studies and lesbian and gay theory. He is currently completing a book entitled, "The Unconscious of Latinidad". In it he claims that the constructions of ethnic, racial and sexual identities in legal discourse as well as the political and social movements organized around these categories in the U.S. must be studied in relation to the history of ego psychology and the distortion of Freudian psychoanalytic theory in the U.S. The book argues that unless we attempt to read racialized trauma according to a more Freudian, Lacanian understanding for subjectivity we will continue to misunderstand why racial stigma persists and, more generally, why the laws humans create to protect against forms of discrimination leave in place a notion of the racialized subject as emptied of interiority and the psychical.