People
Juan Vitulli
Assistant Professor of Iberian & Latin American Literature
Degrees
B.A., University of Rosario; M.A., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Research Profile
Juan Vitulli joined the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures as an assistant professor in the fall of 2007. He specializes in the literature of the Spanish Golden Age, with a particular focus on how Baroque culture affected the development of society, politics, and ideology in the Spanish Empire. Vitulli is currently exploring these themes in a nearly completed book on Juan de Espinosa Medrano, a 17th-century Peruvian priest who was an intellectual, musician, linguist, and theologian. Vitulli is also interested in the formation of national identities and the notion of "criollo" in colonial Latin America.
Recently, a Kellogg grant funded a summer research trip to Peru, where he gathered material for a study of the relationship between baroque sacred oratory and the criollo identity in the 17th century, and the connections between religion, politics, and festivities in 17th and 18th-century culture. Vitulli is exploring the links between the concept of 'representation' in its political and aesthetic meanings, through the study of a sermon preached by a Spanish priest during the funerals of King Carlos II in Lima (1701).
Contact Information
158 Decio Faculty Hall
Office Phone: 574-631-7129
jvitulli@nd.edu
