#  Agnes Lugo Ortiz 

Associate Professor, Latin American Literature, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Gender Studies, Center for Race, Culture and Society, Project Towards a New Americas Studies, University of Chicago

 

 

 



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Agnes Lugo-Ortiz is a specialist in nineteenth-century Latin American literature, and in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Caribbean cultural history. Her work focuses on questions concerning the relationships between cultural production and the formation of modern socio-political identities. This is the subject of her book *Identidades imaginadas: Biografía y nacionalidad en el horizonte de la guerra (Cuba 1860-1898)* and of her current book-length project "Riddles of Modern Identity: Biography and Visual Portraiture in Slaveholding Cuba (1760-1886)." She is the author of numerous essays that address the interconnections between queer sexualities, gender and anti-colonial politics in twentieth-century Puerto Rico. Since 1994 she has been on the advisory board of the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, and is co-editor of [*Herencia. The Anthology of Hispanic Literature of the United States*](http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LiteratureEnglish/AmericanLiterature/~~/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9OTc4MDE5NTEzODI1Mg==), [*En otra voz. Antología de la literatura hispana de los Estados Unidos*](https://artepublicopress.com/product/en-otra-voz-antologia-de-literatura-hispana-de-los-estados-unidos/), and [*Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage, vol. V*](https://artepublicopress.com/product/recovering-the-u-s-hispanic-literary-heritage-vol-v/). She is also the coordinator of the Humanities Division's Project Towards a New Americas Studies.