Lisa Voigt

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A specialist in colonial Latin American literature and culture, Lisa Voigt taught at the University of Chicago and The Ohio State University prior to her arrival at Yale. She is the author of Spectacular Wealth: The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns (University of Texas Press, 2016) and 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), which won the Modern Language Association’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for an outstanding book published in the field of Latin American and Spanish literature and cultures. Her research has been supported by NEH Fellowships at the Newberry Library in Chicago and the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island; a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg, Virginia; Fulbright and Gulbenkian Foundation Fellowships in Lisbon, Portugal; and most recently, an ACLS Collaborative Fellowship (2019-2022) with Professors Elio Brancaforte (Tulane University) and Stephanie Leitch (Florida State University) for a book project provisionally entitled “The Epistemology of the Copy in Early Modern Travel Narratives,” which focuses on recycled and copied illustrations of the non-European world in European travel accounts. She is also working on several publications emerging from her involvement in Public Rituals in the Portuguese Empire (2018-2022), including a monograph on the representation and participation of Africans and Amerindians in early modern Portuguese festivals. She has served as Interim Articles Co-Editor of Renaissance Quarterly (2021-22) and is currently Special Issues Editor of Colonial Latin American Review.

Selected publications:

Spectacular Wealth: The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns

Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic: Circulations of Knowledge and Authority in the Iberian and English Imperial Worlds 

“All the World on Stage: Performance and Global Knowledge in Early Modern Portuguese Festivals.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 55.1 (2021): 41-64.

“The Archive and the Festival.” Journal of Festive Studies 1 (May 2019): 27-35.

“Illustrating Brazil in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp.” Revue Le Verger – bouquet VIII: L’exotisme à la Renaissance (September 2015): 1-18.

“The Traveling Illustrations of Sixteenth-Century Travel Narratives.” With Elio Brancaforte. PMLA 129.3 (May 2014): 365-98.

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