Ricardo L. Ortiz

Professor of English, Georgetown University

Research Expertise

US Latinx literature and culture
critical and cultural theory
queer theory and queer studies
American and Latin American Stud

Publications

Cultural Erotics in Cuban America , and: Cuba Transnational (review)
Cuban Studies
2008
Cafe, Culpa and Capital: Nostalgic Addictions of Cuban Exile
The Yale Journal of Criticism
1997
Sexuality Degree Zero:
Journal of Homosexuality
1993
On (Our) American Ground
Social Text
2008
Arturo Islas and the "Phantom Rectum"
Contemporary Literature
2007
Rechy, John
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature
2020
Cruising the Performative: Interventions into the Representation of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Sexuality (review)
Theatre Journal
1997
Cuban-American Literature
The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature
2012
Borders, exiles, diasporas
Choice Reviews Online
1998
Latinx Literature Now
Literatures of the Americas
2019
Dominican Diaspora
Latino Studies
2017
Edwidge Danticat’s Latinidad — The Farming of Bones and the Cultivation (of Fields) of Knowledge
Aftermaths
2019
Hemispheric Vertigo: Cuba, Quebec, and Other Provisional Reconfigurations of ‘‘Our’’ New America(s)
The Futures of American Studies
2020
Burning X’s
Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies
2020
The Cold War in the Americas and Latina/o Literature
The Cambridge Companion to Latina/o American Literature
2016
Fables of (Cuban) Exile: Special Periods and Queer Moments in Eduardo Machado’s Floating Island Plays
Modern Drama
2005
Fielding's "Orientalist" Moment: Historical Fiction and Historical Knowledge in Tom Jones
Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
1993
Masculinity and Machismo in US Latinx Literature
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature
2019
Queer Latinx Studies and Queer Latinx Literature “After” Queer Theory, or Thought and Art and Sex after Pulse
After Queer Studies
2019
Writing the Haitian Diaspora: The Transnational Contexts of Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker
Imagined Transnationalism
2009
MLA 2022—Virtual Panel for Hybrid Convention (Washington DC): MLA 2022
Leviathan
2022
Being brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino question
Latino Studies
2021
Career Directions for PhDs in English: Building Intellectual and Institutional Infrastructure in the Humanities
ADE Bulletin
2023
The Trouble(s) with Unity: Performative Latinidades Between Culture and Politics
Literatures of the Americas
2019
Un-Homey States: Econo-Mimetics of Homelessness in US Latinx Poetry
Literatures of the Americas
2019
Against Against Literature: Histories of Fiction, Fictions of History
Literatures of the Americas
2019
Archive and Diaspora: Julia Alvarez as Poet, Novelist, and Historian
Literatures of the Americas
2019
The Testimonial Imagination or, Literary Practice “After” Testimonio
Literatures of the Americas
2019
Reiterating Performatives: The Writer, the Reader and the Risks of Literary Action
Literatures of the Americas
2019
(Latinx) Literature’s Work: Between Being and Becoming, Product and Practice
Literatures of the Americas
2019
Careers Beyond Academia
What Every Postdoc Needs to Know
2017
“Queer” en Latin@
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
2014
El deseo, enorme cicatriz luminosa: Ensayos sobre homosexualidades latinoamericanas. By Daniel Balderston. Argentina: Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 2004. Pp. 191. Notes. Bibliography.
The Americas
2006
Clean, and: The Last Angry Brown Hat (review)
Theatre Journal
2000
CALIBAN OU CANIBAL? DIÁLOGOS BRASILEIROS DE ROBERTO FERNÁNDEZ RETAMAR
Lua Nova: Revista de Cultura e Política
2021
Cruising the Performative
Unknown Venue
1995
How to Do Things with Public Humanities
Public Humanities
2025
Circuits of the Sacred: A Faggotology in the Black Latinx Caribbean by Carlos U. Decena (review)
Hispanic Review
2025
Fables of (Cuban) Exile
Modern and Contemporary World Drama: Critical and Primary Sources
2022
Ethnic American Literature
Unknown Venue
2015
Reading Chican@ Like a Queer
Unknown Venue
2010
<i>Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians</i> (review)
Journal of the History of Sexuality
2009
The Fugitives
Prometheus Unbound
2013
Our Bodies, Our/Selves
Bodies in Dissent
2006
Conference on Latin American History
The Americas
2006
Anxieties of Impotence: Cuban Americas in New York City
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
2002
Que Pasa Con La Raza, Eh? (review)
Theatre Journal
2000
Cruising Utopia and the Queering of Latinx Literature
Latinx Literature in Transition, 1992–2020
2025
Crecimiento de plántulas de Vicia faba L. en mezclas de suelo con biosólidos
Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Agrícolas
2023

Education

University of California, Los Angeles

Ph.D., English / June, 1992

Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Experience

Georgetown University

Professor / August, 1998Present

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