The Program in Sexuality Studies at Duke

Education:
PhD in English, University of Pennsylvania, 1999
BA, Swarthmore College, 1989

Expertise:
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

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

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) .

Research Description: Latino studies, Ethnic 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