Agnes Lugo-Ortiz - The University of Chicago

Agnes Lugo-Ortiz is associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean Literatures at the University of Chicago, and coordinator of the Project Towards a New Americas Studies. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, she obtained her BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, and her Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Princeton University. She is the author of Identidades imaginadas: Biografía y nacionalidad en el horizonte de la guerra (Cuba, 1860-1898) (University of Puerto Rico Press, 1999) and co-editor of Herencia: The Anthology of US Hispanic Writing (Oxford UP, 2001), En otra voz: Antología de la Literatura Hispana de los Estados Unidos, and Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Hertiage, volume V (both with Arte Público Press, 2002 and 2006 respectively), as well as of numerous essays on nineteenth- and twentieth -centuries on Latin American and Caribbean literatures. She has recently completed, in collaboration with Angela Rosenthal, the edition of a collection of essays entitled Invisible Subjects: Slave Portraiture in the Circum-Atlantic World (1599-1890) which relates to her current research project on the culture of slavery in colonial Cuba.