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Rodrigo Viqueira is a scholar of modern and contemporary Latin American literature and culture, specializing in the cultural production of the Southern Cone and Brazil. He is interested in sound studies, labor, popular culture, film and media studies, race, and Afro-Latin American Studies. Prof. Viqueira earned an M.A. in Latin American Literature from the Universidad de la República of Uruguay and a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Washington University in St. Louis. His scholarly writing has appeared in Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Latin American Literary Review, and Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana. His monograph Negrismo, vanguardia y folklore. Representación de los afrodescendientes en la obra de Ildefonso Pereda Valdés was published by Rebeca Linke Editoras in 2019.
Research Interests
- 20th and 21st Century Latin American Literature and Culture
- Argentine Literature and Media
- Brazilian Literature and Media
- Sound Studies
- Media Theory
- Afro-Latin American Studies
- Popular Culture
- Modernisms
Education
Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies, Washington University in St. Louis (2024)
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Highlighted Publications
Viqueira, R. (2019). Negrismo, vanguardia y folklore: Representación de los afrodescendientes en la obra de Ildefonso Pereda Valdés (1925-1935). Rebeca Linke Editoras.
Recent Publications
Viqueira, R. (2024). The Allure of Modernity: Afro-Uruguayan Press, Black Internationalism, And Mass Entertainment (1928–1948). Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 33(1), 127-147. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569325.2023.2261866
Mocchi-Radichi, S., & Viqueira, R. (2023). Between Offside and Órsai: Uruguayan Soccer, a (Trans)National Sport. In P. Cameselle-Pesce, & D. Sharnak (Eds.), Uruguay in Transnational Perspective (pp. 116-136). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003271413-9
Viqueira, R. (2022). La escritura fonoautográfica de Rodolfo Walsh: La grabadora y la disputa por la voz obrera en ¿Quién mató a Rosendo? Latin American Literary Review, 49(99), 21-29. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48762353
Viqueira, R. (2020). Review: G. A. Malosetti's La modernidad refractada: pensamiento, creación y resistencia en la historia intelectual de Argentina, Brasil y Lruguay, 1900-1935. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, 46(92), 483-486. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27041889
Viqueira, R. (2019). Negrismo, vanguardia y folklore: Representación de los afrodescendientes en la obra de Ildefonso Pereda Valdés (1925-1935). Rebeca Linke Editoras.