José Villagrana
Assistant Professor
Biography
Early modern British and Spanish literature and culture; colonization and law; critical race studies; digital humanities and accessibility.
Education
Ph.D., English, University of California, Berkeley
B.A., English (Honors), Northwestern University
Selected Publications
Monographs
- Racial Apocalypse: The Cultivation of Supremacy in the Early Modern World. Critical Junctures in Global Early Modernities Series. Edited by Nicholas Jones and Derrick Higginbotham. New York: Routledge, 2022.
- Innocent Racism: How Racist Power Evaded Legal and Moral Responsibility in the Early Modern Era. Manuscript in progress. Complete draft expected 2024.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- “John Donne’s Colonial Innocence.” Studies in Philology 119.3 (2022): 434-468.
- “The Apocalyptic Spanish Race.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 20.1 (2020): 1-28.
- “The Sidneys and Spanish Verse.” Sidney Journal 36.2 (2018): 1-27. (Received the Gerald Rubio Award for best article in the Sidney Journal vol. 36 from the International Sidney Society, 2019)
Journalism
- “Don’t allow Gov. DeSantis to define Western Civilization: Cuban Americans, Puerto Rican Floridians should reconsider voting for DeSantis.” Op-Ed. CalÓ News. 14 March 2023.
- “Climate Change Activists, Please Stop Talk About the Apocalypse.” Op-Ed. Visible Magazine. 6 September 2022.