Lisa Beth Voigt
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
1115 E. 58th Street.
Chicago, IL 60637
Office: Wieboldt 218
Phone: 773/834-7408
Email: lvoigt@uchicago.edu
Assistant Professor of Spanish
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, the latter to prepare her book manuscript, Writing Captivity in the Anglo-Iberian Atlantic: Circulations of Knowledge and Authority in the Early Modern Imperial World, for publication in the Institute's series at the University of North Carolina Press. 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.
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.