Jorge Terukina

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies

Office: Washington Hall 214
Phone: (757) 221-5507
Email: [[jlterukina]]
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Jorge Terukina (he/him/his/él) specializes in the transatlantic Hispanic world (Spain & the New World) during the early modern period (16th and 17th centuries). His teaching and research pay due attention to the relations between pre-modern disciplines, political context, and cultural production. He is currently studying the political uses of Aristotelian 'economic thought' to alternatively cement and erode social asymmetries in the early modern Hispanic Altantic. His research interests encompass transatlantic artifacts and practices from the early modern period, including ephemeral architecture and spectacles, and emblem studies. He is also interested in book history, editorial practices, and canon formation.

Ph.D., Brown University; A.M., Brown University; M.A., University of Kentucky; B.A., Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.

El imperio de la virtud. Grandeza mexicana (1604) de Bernardo de Balbuena y el discurso criollo novohispano. Woodbridge [UK]: Tamesis Books, 2017. 418pp; 23 b/w illustrations.

El imperio de la virtud was recognized with a Mención de Honor [Honorable Mention], Premio Roggiano de la Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, 2018. Awarded by the Instituto de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI) to an outstanding monograph on Latin American Literature and Culture published in Spanish or Portuguese during 2016 & 2017.

For a full publications list, please check Academia.edu.