Spring 2025 Scholar-in-Residence

The Humanities Center welcomes Dr. Vinodh Venkatesh, Professor of Spanish from Virginia Tech University, as our Spring 2025 Scholar-in-Residence.

Vinodh Venkatesh is Professor of Spanish at Virginia Tech. He is the author of three books: Capitán Latinoamérica: Superheroes in Cinema, Television, and Web Series (SUNY P, 2020), New Maricón Cinema: Outing Latin American Film (U of Texas P, 2016), and The Body as Capital: Masculinities in Contemporary Latin American Fiction (U of Arizona P, 2015). He co-edited with María del Carmen Caña Jiménez Horacio Castellanos Moya: El diablo en el espejo (Albatros, 2016) and Crisis TV: Hispanic Television Narratives after 2008 (SUNY P, 2024). He has also written for The Conversation, Filmatique, and InkStick Media. Venkatesh serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Chasqui, Journal of Men’s Studies, Hispanófila, Hispania, and the Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities. He is currently writing a book on the trope and mode of madness in contemporary Latin American cultural artifacts.

See our Events page for information about Dr. Venkatesh's workshops this semester.