Walk with Wente: José Luis Venegas, Ph.D.

More about José Luis Venegas:

Professor of Spanish
Director, Interdisciplinary Humanities Program

José Luis Venegas, professor of Spanish, is also the director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program and the Department of Spanish. He grew up in southern Spain, surrounded by history. His teaching and research focus on comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to modern and contemporary cultures and literatures in Europe and the Americas. 

He is the author of Decolonizing Modernism: James Joyce and the Development of Spanish American Fiction (Routledge, 2010) and Transatlantic Correspondence: Modernity, Epistolarity, and Literature, 1898-1992 (Ohio State University Press, 2014). José Luis’ most recent book, which was supported by an NEH Summer Stipend, is The Sublime South: Andalusia, Orientalism, and the Making of Modern Spain (Northwestern University Press, 2018). Additionally, he has published articles in PMLA, Comparative Literature Studies, MLN, Discourse, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, and Hispanic Review, among other venues. 

Venegas teaches several Spanish and humanities courses, including “Exploring the Hispanic World” and “Dialogues with Antiquity: The West and Beyond.”