Juan Vitulli

Juan Vitulli was born in Rosario, Argentina. In that city, he studied Literature at the Facultad de Humanidades y Artes.  In 2003, Vitulli moved to Nashville, Tennessee where he obtained his MA and PhD in Spanish at Vanderbilt University. Under the direction of Edward H. Friedman, he specialized in Baroque literature and culture. Since 2007, Vitulli is Associate Professor in the Department of Roman Languages of the University of Notre Dame. His academic interests include baroque poetry, theater and preaching. Specifically, Vitulli studies the relationships between Iberian cultural productions and their connections with the Latin American colonial world. He has published essays and books around the figures of Góngora, Cervantes, Espinosa Medrano, Camargo, among other baroque authors. Vitulli has been a visiting professor at different universities both in Latin America and in the United States. He taught seminars and directed workshops at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), the Catholic University of Peru (Lima), the University of Los Andes (Bogotá), and the UNAM, Mexico.