The Program in Sexuality Studies at Duke

Education:
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1999
B.A., 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

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• Lit 354s.01, Intro to psychoanalytic theory Synopsis

  Friedl bdg 102, WF 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

• Lit 690s.04, Special topics in literature Synopsis

  Friedl bdg 216, F 10:20 AM-12:50 PM

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 .
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 .
4. Viego, A, Review of "The Puerto Rican Syndrome" by Patricia Gherovici, Latino Studies, vol. 3 (July, 2015), pp. 165-169, Palgrave Macmillan .
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  [abs].

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