Carlos Jáuregui

Carlos Jáuregui is Professor of Spanish at the University of Notre Dame, with concurrent appointments in Anthropology and faculty fellowships at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and Institute of Latino Studies. His research focuses on colonial Latin American cultural studies, biopolitics, and visual culture, bridging literary analysis with historical anthropology.

Education includes:

• Ph.D. Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh (2001)
• Graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh (2000)
• M.A. Spanish American Literature, West Virginia University (1997)
• Law Degree, Universidad Externado de Colombia (1993)

Research explores colonial power dynamics through frameworks like biopolitics and postcolonial theory, examining how historical narratives conceal violence while invoking spectral 'returns' of suppressed alterity. Recent work analyzes visual sovereignty in revolutionary iconography (e.g., Emiliano Zapata) and theological justifications of Spanish colonialism. Publications consistently engage with paradoxes of memory, resistance, and representation across 500 years of Latin American cultural production.

Awards highlight transnational recognition:

• 2024 Emiliano Zapata Catedra distinction
• 2023 Dolores Huerta Book Award
• Premio Casa de las Américas (2005)
• Multiple Fulbright and NEH fellowships

Advising includes doctoral students now faculty at University of Florida, Concordia College, Carleton College, and Furman University. Current book projects examine colonial renegades in Yucatán and monumental forgetting of Hernán Cortés in Mexico (1524-2024).