Brown Bag Series #45

Zeb Tortorici “Archives of the Body: Inquisition, Sexuality, and Erotica in Mexico”

Brown Bag Series #45

Date: June 09, 2023
Time: 10:30-12:00
Venue: Collaboration Room 4 on the 4th Floor of the Building 18, Komaba Campus, University of Tokyo
Language: Presentation: English / Q&A: English & Spanish

Zeb Tortorici
New York University

“Archives of the Body: Inquisition, Sexuality, and Erotica in Mexico”

Zeb Tortorici is Associate Professor at New York University. His research focuses on gender, sexuality, and religion in colonial Latin America, queer archives, and the archiving/censorship of erotica and the “obscene” in Latin America, from the 18th century to the present. His book Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain (2018) received several prizes including the John Boswell Award from the Committee on LGBT History and the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize. His edited or coedited books include Centering Animals in Latin American History (2013); Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America (2016); Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History (2019); Ethnopornography: Sexuality, Colonialism, and Archival Knowledge (2020); and Baptism Through Incision: The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire (2020). He has coedited special issues of Radical History Review and TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies.