Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Faculty of Arts & Science
Zeb Tortorici is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures. His book manuscript looks at the intersections of archives, sexuality, desire, and colonialism, in colonial Latin America between the sixteenth century and early nineteenth. He has published articles in Ethnohistory, the Journal of the History of Sexuality, History Compass, e-misférica, and in the edited volumes Death and Dying in Colonial Spanish America and Queer Youth Cultures. With Martha Few, he recently co-edited Centering Animals in Latin American History, and he is currently co-editing two special issues of Radical History Review on the topic of “queering archives.” He is also co-editing Ethnopornography: Sexuality, Colonialism, and Anthropological Knowing with Pete Sigal, Erika Robb Larkins, and the late Neil L. Whitehead.