Christofer's research is animated by the observation that the spectacular body, as represented in performance, literature, and popular memory, is essential to formations of race and ethnicity within Latinx subjecthood. His current project examine historical performances of what he calls “Latinx spectacle,” displays of Black and Brown subjects that received intense public scrutiny during their lifetimes and in historical memory, constructed a Latinx body politic representative of different racial and ethnic formations. By turning to the nineteenth century, a period largely overlooked in Latinx studies, he develops a history of performance practices by and about Latinxs that help us understand current discussions on racism, immigration, and colonialism.