Jorge Coronado
Photo: Annette Hornischer

Professor of Modern Latin American and Andean Literatures and Cultures, Northwestern University

Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow - Class of Fall 2023

Jorge Coronado is Professor of Modern Latin American and Andean Literatures and Cultures at Northwestern University, where he is currently the co-director of the Andean Cultures and Histories working group (ACH) at the Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies. He received a BA from Williams College and PhD from Columbia University. Coronado has published widely on visual culture, modernity, Indigeneity, and intellectual traditions in Latin America, including The Andes Imagined: Indigenismo, Society, and Modernity (Pittsburgh, 2009), Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency, 1900-1950 (Pittsburgh, 2018), and the co-edited volumes Visiones de los Andes. Ensayos críticos sobre el concepto de paisaje y región (Plural Editores and Pittsburgh, 2019) and Anarquismos y marxismos en Bolivia, Ecuador y Perú. Textos esenciales (Ediciones Achawata, forthcoming). He is the Series Editor for Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas at the University of Pittsburgh Press and has served in multiple editorial capacities, including at the PMLA Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Bolivian Studies Journal, and other publications. He has lectured widely at universities and other cultural institutions in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Coronado’s work has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Rockefeller Foundation, and Mellon Foundation.

Project Description

Indigeneity and Textuality in Latin America, 1890-1940

For his Academy project, Coronado will research a body of texts authored by Indigenous peoples throughout the Andean region in roughly the first half of the twentieth century. By studying largely overlooked Indigenous texts, from pastoral plays to broadsheet manifestos, Coronado seeks to demonstrate how Indigenous subjects employed and reconfigured modern ideologies—such as anarchism, Marxism, and feminism—alongside native worldviews in their self-representation and, particularly, in critiques of the political, economic, and social worlds they inhabited. In Berlin, Coronado plans to explore the city’s rich archival collections and other resources related to Latin America. At the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, he will focus on vanguard periodicals and hard-to-find books from the Andes, including a complete collection of publications by Bolivia’s Taller de Historia Oral Andina (Oral Andean History Workshop), periodicals such as Gesta Bárbara and Boletín Titikaka, as well as the works of Ecuador’s Grupo de Guayaquil, a literary group founded amid the political upheaval of the 1930s to protest racial and class injustices and social inequality. He will also strive to build collaborative networks with Berlin’s specialists in Latin America, homed at German universities and other cultural institutions.

Academy Activities

14 Nov 23
Indigenous Writing in Latin America History

Ellen Maria Gorrissen Lecture

Indigenous Writing in Latin America

Jorge Coronado explores little-known texts written by Indigenous peoples during the first half of the twentieth century.

Read more
14 Nov 23

Indigenous Writing in Latin America

Jorge Coronado explores an understudied aspect of Latin American literary history: little-known texts written by Indigenous peoples and their allies during the first half of the twentieth century. In formats such as testimonies, manifestos, pastoral plays, memorized documents, as well as traditional ...

Read more
Back To Top