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Lisa Voigt is a Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Director of Graduate Studies at Yale University. She previously taught at the University of Chicago and The Ohio State University. Her research centers on colonial Latin American literature and culture, with a focus on public rituals, travel narratives, and visual representation in the Iberian empires.
- Ph.D., Brown University, 2001
Her research explores the intersections of performance, print culture, and colonial identity in the early modern Atlantic world. She is particularly interested in how knowledge about non-European peoples was produced, circulated, and authenticated through texts and images in European travel accounts and festival records.
Her recent publications examine the epistemology of copied illustrations in travel narratives, the representation of Africans and Amerindians in Portuguese festivals, and the cultural significance of mining town celebrations in colonial South America. These works reflect a sustained engagement with visual culture, ethnographic representation, and the politics of spectacle in imperial contexts.
- Modern Language Association’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize
- NEH Fellowship, Newberry Library
- NEH Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library
- Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Omohundro Institute
- Fulbright Fellowship, Portugal
- Gulbenkian Foundation Fellowship, Portugal
- ACLS Collaborative Fellowship (2019–2022)
Voigt has advised numerous graduate students and served in editorial roles, including Interim Articles Co-Editor of Renaissance Quarterly and current Special Issues Editor of Colonial Latin American Review. She has received external funding for collaborative research projects and is actively contributing to the scholarly discourse on colonial Latin American cultural production.
She is currently working on a book project titled “The Epistemology of the Copy in Early Modern Travel Narratives” (with Elio Brancaforte and Stephanie Leitch) and a monograph on African and Amerindian participation in Portuguese imperial festivals.
