Jason Borge

Jason Borge is a Professor of Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Texas at Austin's College of Liberal Arts. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (2002) and previously served as an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University before joining UT Austin in 2009. His interdisciplinary research explores intra-hemispheric cultural exchanges, particularly the reception of U.S. mass culture in 20th-century Latin America.

Borge's research spans multiple domains:

• Latin American popular music/sound studies with emphasis on Brazil
• Film/media studies and transnational American Studies
• Literary vanguards and cultural modernity
• Jazz as political/cultural practice
• Technology's role in shaping Latin American subjectivities

His major publications include Tropical Riffs: Latin America and the Politics of Jazz (Duke UP, 2018) and the forthcoming Jazz Odyssey (University Press of Mississippi), alongside earlier works on Hollywood's influence in Latin America.

He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Spanish, Portuguese, and English, including seminars on 'Artificial Modernities', 'Decolonizing Music and Cinema', and 'Critical Pan-Americanism'. He has supervised dissertations on topics ranging from Mexican sound cinema to Brazilian cultural pan-Americanism and oil narratives in Venezuela/Colombia.