NCID-2904
Vinodh Venkatesh
Professor of Spanish
Virginia Tech
Education/Degree:
1 Romance Languages and Literatures Romance Languages and Literatures (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
About
A faculty member in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures since 2011, Vinodh Venkatesh is Professor of Spanish and the author of three books: Capitán Latinoamérica: Superheroes in Cinema, Television, and Web Series (SUNY P, 2020), New Maricón Cinema: Outing Latin American Film (U of Texas P, 2016), and The Body as Capital: Masculinities in Contemporary Latin American Fiction (U of Arizona P, 2015). He co-edited with María del Carmen Caña Jiménez Horacio Castellanos Moya: El diablo en el espejo (Albatros, 2016). He has also written for The Conversation, Filmatique, and InkStick Media.
Venkatesh serves on the editorial boards of Chasqui, Journal of Men’s Studies, Hispanófila, Hispania, Romance Notes, Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities, and MIFLC Review.
Venkatesh has won several awards for his teaching, research, and service at Virginia Tech.
Current Work
Dr. Venkatesh has written three books and many articles on issues of gender and sexuality in Latin American and Spanish cultural production. His scholarship examines issues of patriarchy, LGBTQ studies, and masculinities in contemporary literature, cinema, and television. Dr. Venkatesh is also interested in the representation of processes of human rights in the Spanish-speaking world. In a separate line of research, his writings explore how cultural artifacts deconstruct moments of transition from civil war, genocide and dictatorships to neoliberal democracies.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Queer theory, masculinity, human rights, Latin America, Spain