People

Juan Vitulli

Assistant Professor of Iberian & Latin-American Literature and Culture at UND since 2007


Degrees
Ph.D. Vanderbilt University (2007)
M.A. Vanderbilt University (2005)
B.A. Universidad Nacional de Rosario (2000)
Research Profile
Areas of Research:

  • Early Modern Hispanic Literature and Culture.
  • Baroque Poetry
  • Baroque sermons
  • The Baroque and the Creole: cultural intersections
  • The Baroque Hispanic Preacher

Books:

 

I teach courses on Early Modern Spanish literature and culture, with a strong interest on the Baroque period and the relationships between the metropolitan discourse and the colonial Latin-American appropriation.

My most recent book is the critical edition of Amar su propia muerte (To Love One’s Own Death) the only comedia written by Espinosa Medrano. The book was published during 2011 by the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. The book includes a 100 pages introduction and the annotated play with more than 400 bibliographical and critical notes. (300 pages)
I have also published Poéticas de lo criollo. La trasnformación del concepto “criollo” en las letras hispanoamericanas. Siglos XVI-XIX, a co-edited interdisciplinary volume dedicated to the analysis of the concept of “criollo” as a floating signifier in Latin-American culture.

Thanks to a long term fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library, I have finished the first complete study of the life and works of Juan de Espinosa Medrano, a 17th century Peruvian priest who is considered today as the most exemplary figure of the letrado criollo (educated Creole).
Currently, I am working in a new project titled The Baroque Hispanic Preacher where I study books on preaching written during the XVII century in Spain and its colonies—including Peru, Mexico, Colombia and the Philippines.

Contact Information
158 Decio Faculty Hall
Office Phone: 574-631-7129
jvitulli@nd.edu