Lisa Beth Voigt
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
1115 E. 58th Street.
Chicago, IL 60637
Office: Wieboldt 218
Email: lvoigt@uchicago.edu
Professor Voigt joined the faculty of Romance Languages and Literatures in 2000, after earning her Ph.D. from Brown University. She has held an NEH fellowship at the Newberry Library and a Mellon fellowship at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg, Virginia. Her book, Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic: Circulations of Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English Imperial Worlds, will be published by the University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture in Autumn 2008. Her teaching and research on colonial Latin American literature and culture address transatlantic and comparative issues, and include such topics as captivity and shipwreck narratives in the Spanish and Portuguese empires, mestizo historiography in New Spain, and Baroque festivals and creole identity in the Andes and Brazil. She has published on these and other topics in Colonial Latin American Review, Early American Literature, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Romance Notes and MLN, among other journals and collected volumes. She is on leave in 2008-2009 while she is a Visiting Associate Professor at the Ohio State University.
Education
- Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies, Brown University, 2000
- B.A. in Hispanic Studies, Northwestern University, 1993
Awards, Honors, and Professional Experience
- Luso-American Foundation for Development (FLAD) Fellowship at the Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal, Summer 2006
- Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2005-2006
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Newberry Library, 2002-2003
Selected Courses Taught
(Re)escrituras de la colonia; Narrativas de viaje y contacto intercultural en el imperio hispánico; Historiografía mestiza; El espectáculo en el Barroco de Indias; La ciudad letrada; Captivity Narratives; Relations of Empire: Spanish and Portuguese Narratives of Imperial Expansion.