Zeb Tortorici
Biographic Data
| ID | 259237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zeb Tortorici |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zeb |
| FAMILY NAME | Tortorici |
| SIGNATURE | TORTORICI Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Roundtable/Photo Essay with Archivo El Insulto
Rethinking Obscenity in Latin America: Obscenity, Art, and Performance
In this second special issue on the cultural politics of obscenity in Latin America, we place our focus on performative configurations of subjecthood and power positions, especially as they relate to explicit public and semi-public displays of the human body. Performance studies scholar Michelle Castañeda argues that courtrooms are "little theatres" where the law puts on a show; while the theatrical presentation of the law's cruel contradictions …
Entangled Archives and Latin Americanist Histories of Sexuality
Introduction. The Politics of Obscenity in Latin America
Turning Archival: The Life of the Historical in Queer Studies
The contributors to Turning Archival trace the rise of “the archive” as an object of historical desire and study within queer studies and examine how it fosters historical imagination and knowledge. Highlighting the growing significance of the archival to LGBTQ scholarship, politics, and everyday life, they draw upon accounts of queer archival encounters in institutional, grassroots, and everyday repositories of historical memory. The contributor…
Ethnopornography: Sexuality, Colonialism, and Archival Knowledge
With topics that span the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the contributors show how ethnopornography—the eroticized observation of the Other for supposedly scientific or academic purposes—is fundamental to the creation of race, colonialism, and archival and ethnographic knowledge.
Introduction Writing Animal Histories
‘‘In the Name of the Father and the Mother of All Dogs’’: Canine Baptisms, Weddings, and Funerals in Bourbon Mexico
Cross-Generational Abuse
This article analyzes the influence of confessional manuals on Catholic priests who solicited sexual favors from parishioners during confession throughout colonial New Spain. It proposes that we think about centuries of sexual encounters between priests and parishioners through the concept of cross-generational abuse, which describes intersecting forms of priestly exploitation based on chronological age differentials, allegorical power relations …
Circulating Erotica: Flea Markets, Collections, and Archives in Mexico
Ethnopornography: Sexuality, Colonialism, and Archival Knowledge
Ethnopornography: Sexuality, Colonialism, and Archival Knowledge
This volume's contributors explore the links among sexuality, ethnography, race, and colonial rule through an examination of ethnopornography-the eroticized observation of the Other for supposedly scientific or academic purposes. With topics that span the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the contributors show how ethnopornography is fundamental to the creation of ra…
Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America
of pulperias, barbershops, beauty salons, and shoe stores.Soriano coins original concepts with the potential to transform interdisciplinary studies of the Age of Revolutions.Venezuela's port towns and cities were home to " 'semiliterate' communities" that promoted "plebeian literacy" among diverse social groups lacking full and independent access to the written word but fully engaging in public debate nonetheless (pp.40-41).Complemented by a wide…
Interview with Maya Mikdashi and Carlos Motta on Deseos / رغبات
Special issue editors Leah DeVun and Zeb Tortorici interview Maya Mikdashi and Carlos Motta about their collaborative film, Deseos /رغبات (Desires, 2015), which places queer and gender-variant historical characters within a fluid chronological framework. In this interview, Mikdashi and Motta discuss issues such as imperial and colonial temporality, queer networks of community, and a desire for happy endings in history
Trans*historicities”
“Trans*historicities: A Roundtable Discussion” offers reflections on how thinking about time and chronology has impacted scholarship in trans studies in recent years. Contributing scholars come from numerous disciplines that touch on history, and have expertise in far-ranging geographic and temporal fields. As a broad conversation about some of the potential possibilities and difficulties in seeking out—and finding—trans in historical contexts, t…
Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain
In an unremarkable box on a shelf of the municipal archive of Monterrey, in the Mexican state of Nuevo León, is a document with a story that is at once extraordinary and entirely mundane.That story relates how one day in 1656, Nicolás de Lares, a citizen of Monterrey, was walking through some fields when he came upon Lorenzo Vidales, a thirteen-year-old mestizo goat herder.Vidales was, according to Lares, standing under a tree committing the peca…
Queer Museum Studies
Book Review| January 01 2018 Queer Museum Studies: Sex, Archives, and Exhibitions Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display, Tyburczy, Jennifer, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. xxv + 286 Zeb Tortorici Zeb Tortorici Zeb Tortorici is assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese languages and literatures at New York University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2018) 24 (1): 162–164. https://doi.…
Trans, Time, and History
Questions of time and chronology have risen to the forefront of scholarship in queer and trans studies in recent years.1 Carolyn Dinshaw has advocated for anachronistic "touches" across time, Roderick Ferguson has envisioned queer "palimpsests with residues of earlier discourses and histories," and C. Riley Snorton has highlighted intersections of blackness and trans as a condition of temporal possibility-as "movement with no clear origin and no …
Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America
Auto/ethno/pornography
Pornography's presence on college and university campuses has increasingly manifested itself in multiple ways in the United States and internationally. Alongside the increasing academization and in
Sexual Violence, Predatory Masculinity, and Medical Testimony in New Spain
This essay examines the medical and legal construction of predatory masculinity in New Spain by contrasting criminal cases of rape [estupro] with those of violent or coercive sodomy [sodomía]. In the context of male-female rape, the rulings of most criminal and ecclesiastical courts imply that predatory masculinity was a "natural" manifestation of male sexual desire, whereas in cases of sodomy and nonconsensual sexual acts between men, courts vie…
Queering Archives
Queering Archives: A Roundtable Discussion" provides a reflection on histories of queer archives studies, while marking out some key directions for the field's future development. As a broad conversation about the career of the queer archival, as both intellectual project and political practice, this discussion focuses on developments and limits within North American queer studies of the archive, which emerges as a central object of analysis and …
Visceral Archives of the Body
This essay focuses on how viscerality refracts as an issue for archival studies of early modern sexuality (and beyond). Through a microhistorical examination of textual representations of necrophilia, fellatio, masturbation, and erotic religious visions from colonial Mexican historical archives, this essay traces what I term the visceral archives of the body to show how particular acts and desires come into archival being (and thus into historici…
“In the Name of the Father and the Mother of All Dogs”: Canine Baptisms, Weddings, and Funerals in Bourbon Mexico
Birds and Scientists in Brazil: In Search of Protection, 1894–1938
Queering Archives
Queering Archives: A Roundtable Discussion" provides a reflection on histories of queer archives studies, while marking out some key directions for the field's future development. As a broad conversation about the career of the queer archival, as both intellectual project and political practice, this discussion focuses on developments and limits within North American queer studies of the archive, which emerges as a central object of analysis and …
Trans, Time, and History
Questions of time and chronology have risen to the forefront of scholarship in queer and trans studies in recent years.1 Carolyn Dinshaw has advocated for anachronistic "touches" across time, Roderick Ferguson has envisioned queer "palimpsests with residues of earlier discourses and histories," and C. Riley Snorton has highlighted intersections of blackness and trans as a condition of temporal possibility-as "movement with no clear origin and no …
Centering Animals in Latin American History
Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain
In an unremarkable box on a shelf of the municipal archive of Monterrey, in the Mexican state of Nuevo León, is a document with a story that is at once extraordinary and entirely mundane.That story relates how one day in 1656, Nicolás de Lares, a citizen of Monterrey, was walking through some fields when he came upon Lorenzo Vidales, a thirteen-year-old mestizo goat herder.Vidales was, according to Lares, standing under a tree committing the peca…
Trans*historicities”
“Trans*historicities: A Roundtable Discussion” offers reflections on how thinking about time and chronology has impacted scholarship in trans studies in recent years. Contributing scholars come from numerous disciplines that touch on history, and have expertise in far-ranging geographic and temporal fields. As a broad conversation about some of the potential possibilities and difficulties in seeking out—and finding—trans in historical contexts, t…
Ethnopornography: Sexuality, Colonialism, and Archival Knowledge
This volume's contributors explore the links among sexuality, ethnography, race, and colonial rule through an examination of ethnopornography-the eroticized observation of the Other for supposedly scientific or academic purposes. With topics that span the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the contributors show how ethnopornography is fundamental to the creation of ra…
Heran Todos Putos: Sodomitical Subcultures and Disordered Desire in Early Colonial Mexico
This essay focuses on a 1604 document from Morelia's criminal archive dealing initially with the prosecution of two Purépecha men accused of committing sodomy in a temascal. Attention is paid to individual testimonies and details surrounding sexual acts between the men in the temascal and between other Purépecha men from Uruapan, Tzintzuntzan, and surrounding pueblos. This criminal case offers strong evidence that sodomitical subcultures-social n…
Visceral Archives of the Body
This essay focuses on how viscerality refracts as an issue for archival studies of early modern sexuality (and beyond). Through a microhistorical examination of textual representations of necrophilia, fellatio, masturbation, and erotic religious visions from colonial Mexican historical archives, this essay traces what I term the visceral archives of the body to show how particular acts and desires come into archival being (and thus into historici…
Against Nature: Sodomy and Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America
Since the early 1980s, historians have increasingly turned their attention toward the topics of sodomy and “homosexuality” in colonial Latin America. Contemporaries referred to such crimes – prosecuted by criminal courts or the Holy Office of the Inquisition, depending on locale and jurisdiction – as either the pecado nefando (the nefarious sin), the pecado contra natura (sin against nature), or sodomía (sodomy). This, however, has not dissuaded …
Circulating Erotica: Flea Markets, Collections, and Archives in Mexico
Auto/ethno/pornography
Pornography's presence on college and university campuses has increasingly manifested itself in multiple ways in the United States and internationally. Alongside the increasing academization and in
Heran Todos Putos: Sodomitical Subcultures and Disordered Desire in Early Colonial Mexico
This essay focuses on a 1604 document from Morelia's criminal archive dealing initially with the prosecution of two Purépecha men accused of committing sodomy in a temascal. Attention is paid to individual testimonies and details surrounding sexual acts between the men in the temascal and between other Purépecha men from Uruapan, Tzintzuntzan, and surrounding pueblos. This criminal case offers strong evidence that sodomitical subcultures-social n…
Against Nature: Sodomy and Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America
Since the early 1980s, historians have increasingly turned their attention toward the topics of sodomy and “homosexuality” in colonial Latin America. Contemporaries referred to such crimes – prosecuted by criminal courts or the Holy Office of the Inquisition, depending on locale and jurisdiction – as either the pecado nefando (the nefarious sin), the pecado contra natura (sin against nature), or sodomía (sodomy). This, however, has not dissuaded …
“In the Name of the Father and the Mother of All Dogs”: Canine Baptisms, Weddings, and Funerals in Bourbon Mexico
Birds and Scientists in Brazil: In Search of Protection, 1894–1938
Birds and Scientists in Brazil: In Search of Protection, 1894-1938
Animal Labor and Protection in Cuba: Changes in Relationships with Animals in the Nineteenth Century
Centering Animals in Latin American History
Visceral Archives of the Body
This essay focuses on how viscerality refracts as an issue for archival studies of early modern sexuality (and beyond). Through a microhistorical examination of textual representations of necrophilia, fellatio, masturbation, and erotic religious visions from colonial Mexican historical archives, this essay traces what I term the visceral archives of the body to show how particular acts and desires come into archival being (and thus into historici…
Auto/ethno/pornography
Pornography's presence on college and university campuses has increasingly manifested itself in multiple ways in the United States and internationally. Alongside the increasing academization and in
Sexual Violence, Predatory Masculinity, and Medical Testimony in New Spain
This essay examines the medical and legal construction of predatory masculinity in New Spain by contrasting criminal cases of rape [estupro] with those of violent or coercive sodomy [sodomía]. In the context of male-female rape, the rulings of most criminal and ecclesiastical courts imply that predatory masculinity was a "natural" manifestation of male sexual desire, whereas in cases of sodomy and nonconsensual sexual acts between men, courts vie…
Queering Archives
Queering Archives: A Roundtable Discussion" provides a reflection on histories of queer archives studies, while marking out some key directions for the field's future development. As a broad conversation about the career of the queer archival, as both intellectual project and political practice, this discussion focuses on developments and limits within North American queer studies of the archive, which emerges as a central object of analysis and …
Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America
Interview with Maya Mikdashi and Carlos Motta on Deseos / رغبات
Special issue editors Leah DeVun and Zeb Tortorici interview Maya Mikdashi and Carlos Motta about their collaborative film, Deseos /رغبات (Desires, 2015), which places queer and gender-variant historical characters within a fluid chronological framework. In this interview, Mikdashi and Motta discuss issues such as imperial and colonial temporality, queer networks of community, and a desire for happy endings in history
Trans*historicities”
“Trans*historicities: A Roundtable Discussion” offers reflections on how thinking about time and chronology has impacted scholarship in trans studies in recent years. Contributing scholars come from numerous disciplines that touch on history, and have expertise in far-ranging geographic and temporal fields. As a broad conversation about some of the potential possibilities and difficulties in seeking out—and finding—trans in historical contexts, t…
Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain
In an unremarkable box on a shelf of the municipal archive of Monterrey, in the Mexican state of Nuevo León, is a document with a story that is at once extraordinary and entirely mundane.That story relates how one day in 1656, Nicolás de Lares, a citizen of Monterrey, was walking through some fields when he came upon Lorenzo Vidales, a thirteen-year-old mestizo goat herder.Vidales was, according to Lares, standing under a tree committing the peca…
Queer Museum Studies
Book Review| January 01 2018 Queer Museum Studies: Sex, Archives, and Exhibitions Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display, Tyburczy, Jennifer, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. xxv + 286 Zeb Tortorici Zeb Tortorici Zeb Tortorici is assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese languages and literatures at New York University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2018) 24 (1): 162–164. https://doi.…
Trans, Time, and History
Questions of time and chronology have risen to the forefront of scholarship in queer and trans studies in recent years.1 Carolyn Dinshaw has advocated for anachronistic "touches" across time, Roderick Ferguson has envisioned queer "palimpsests with residues of earlier discourses and histories," and C. Riley Snorton has highlighted intersections of blackness and trans as a condition of temporal possibility-as "movement with no clear origin and no …
Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America
of pulperias, barbershops, beauty salons, and shoe stores.Soriano coins original concepts with the potential to transform interdisciplinary studies of the Age of Revolutions.Venezuela's port towns and cities were home to " 'semiliterate' communities" that promoted "plebeian literacy" among diverse social groups lacking full and independent access to the written word but fully engaging in public debate nonetheless (pp.40-41).Complemented by a wide…
Ethnopornography: Sexuality, Colonialism, and Archival Knowledge
With topics that span the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the contributors show how ethnopornography—the eroticized observation of the Other for supposedly scientific or academic purposes—is fundamental to the creation of race, colonialism, and archival and ethnographic knowledge.
Introduction Writing Animal Histories
‘‘In the Name of the Father and the Mother of All Dogs’’: Canine Baptisms, Weddings, and Funerals in Bourbon Mexico
Cross-Generational Abuse
This article analyzes the influence of confessional manuals on Catholic priests who solicited sexual favors from parishioners during confession throughout colonial New Spain. It proposes that we think about centuries of sexual encounters between priests and parishioners through the concept of cross-generational abuse, which describes intersecting forms of priestly exploitation based on chronological age differentials, allegorical power relations …
Circulating Erotica: Flea Markets, Collections, and Archives in Mexico
Ethnopornography: Sexuality, Colonialism, and Archival Knowledge
Ethnopornography: Sexuality, Colonialism, and Archival Knowledge
This volume's contributors explore the links among sexuality, ethnography, race, and colonial rule through an examination of ethnopornography-the eroticized observation of the Other for supposedly scientific or academic purposes. With topics that span the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the contributors show how ethnopornography is fundamental to the creation of ra…
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