Rodrigo Viqueira

Rodrigo Viqueira is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at Stony Brook University. He specializes in modern and contemporary Latin American literature and culture, with a focus on the Southern Cone and Brazil. His research explores sound studies, labor, popular culture, film/media studies, and Afro-Latin American Studies.

Education: M.A. in Latin American Literature (Universidad de la República, Uruguay) and Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies (Washington University, St. Louis).

Current research projects include analyzing the politics of sound in labor representation across Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay (1920s–1970s), and examining Afro-Uruguayan cultural production through interdisciplinary archives. His monograph Negrismo, vanguardia y folklore (2019) examines Afro-Uruguayan identity construction through the work of Ildefonso Pereda Valdés.

He has been awarded the 2024 LASA Southern Cone Best Article Prize for his work on Afro-Uruguayan press and Black internationalism. Courses taught include HUS 150 (Indigenous Cultures of Latin America) and SPN 321 (Advanced Spanish Grammar).