Carlos Jáuregui
Professor of Spanish
Discipline(s): Spanish Language and Literature
Available to direct dissertations
Distinguished Member of the Emiliano Zapata Salazar Catedra at the Mexican National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) since 2024. Elected member of the MLA Colonial Latin American Forum executive committee (2019-2024). His publications include: Bartolomé de Las Casas y el paradigma biopolítico de la modernidad colonial(Madrid, Frankfurt: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, Forthcoming, 2024), co-authored with David Solodkow and recipient of the accésit distinction in the Klaus Vervuert 2023 Hispanic Essay Prize; Emiliano Zapata: 100 años, 100 fotos / Emiliano Zapata: 100 years, 100 Photographs. (México: Casasola México; Bogotá: Universidad de Los Andes, 2022), co-authored and co-edited with D. Solodkow and Karina Herazo, winner of the 2023 Dolores Huerta Book Award (25th International Latino Book Awards); Espectros y conjuras. Asedios a la cuestión colonial (Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2020). Honorable Mention for the LASA Book Prize in Colonial Latin American Studies in 2022; Canibalia. Canibalismo, calibanismo, antropofagia cultural y consumo en América Latina (Habana Cuba y Córdoba, Spain, Casa de las Américas 2005: second revised edition: Vervuert 2008), winner of the Premio Casa de las Américas 2005; The Conquest on Trial: Carvajal’s Complaint of the Indians in the "Court of Death" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2008); and Querella de los indios en las “Cortes de la Muerte” (1557) (México: UNAM, 2002). He is co-editor of Approaches to Teaching Cabeza de Vaca’s Account and Other Texts (MLA, Forthcoming 2024, with Luis Fernando Restrepo); Coloniality at Large. Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate (Duke UP, 2008 with Enrique Dussel and M. Moraña), winner of the FORD-LASA Special Project Award; Colonialidad y crítica en América Latina. Bases para un debate (México: UDLA, 2008 with M. Moraña); Revisiting the Colonial Question in Latin America (Madrid / Frankfurt, Iberoamericana / Vervuert, 2008, with M. Moraña); and Heterotropías: narrativas de identidad y alteridad latinoamericana(Pittsburgh: IILI, 2003, with J.P. Davobe). Professor Jáuregui also co-authored and coedited with Joseph S. Mella and Edward F. Fischer Of Rage and Redemption: The Art of Oswaldo Guayasamín (Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, 2008), the art catalog for the Oswaldo Guayasamín Art Exhibit and National Tour 2008- 2009, winner of the 2008 Award for Outstanding Exhibition and Catalogue of Contemporary Materials from the Southeastern College Art Conference. He is currently engaged in two book-length studies: “Colonial Renegades in Yucatán” and “Monumental Ways of Forgetting. The Paradoxes of Remembering Hernán Cortés in Mexico (1524-2024).” His scholarly work has earned him numerous awards and fellowships, including those from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Bavarian Program for Foreign Visiting Scholars at the University of Augsburg and the Fulbright-Garcia Robles in Social Sciences ans Humanities.