Charlie Geyer

Charlie Geyer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona. He holds a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on comparative Latin American and Latinx literatures/cultures, particularly border studies and the aesthetics of bordering practices in hemispheric contexts. His current book project, Disturbing Beauty: Border Crossing in Latin American and Latinx Imaginaries, explores interdisciplinary approaches to border politics through literature, performance, and visual arts.

Teaching specialties include Spanish/Portuguese language and courses such as Beauty and Marginality in Contemporary Latin America, Borderless Borderlands: Latin American Migrations, and Queer Crossings: Latin and Latinx Americas. His scholarship appears in Chasqui, The Comparatist, and Revista de Estudios Hispánicos.

His work bridges critical border studies, geography, and anthropology to analyze how aesthetics both enforces and subverts geopolitical/social boundaries. No formal awards are listed, but his research demonstrates innovative contributions to cultural analysis of bordering practices.