Lisa Voigt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Her book, Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic: Circulations of Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English Imperial Worlds (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina Press, 2009), won the Modern Language Association's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for an outstanding book published in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures.
Her teaching and research focus on colonial Latin American literature and culture address transatlantic and comparative issues, and include such topics as captivity and shipwreck narratives in the Spanish and Portuguese empires, mestizo historiography in New Spain, and Baroque festivals and festival accounts in the Andes, Brazil, and Portugal.
She is currently completing a book manuscript entitled "Spectacular Wealth: Power and Participation in the Festivals of Colonial Potosí and Minas Gerais."
Sponsored by the Americas Before 1900 Working Group of the Humanities Institute.
