Background
Jose A. Quiroga was born on May 3, 1959, in Havana, Cuba. He is a son of José and Rita Quiroga. He grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Boston, MA 02215, United States
In 1980 Jose Quiroga received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston University.
New Haven, CT 06520, United States
In 1987 Jose Quiroga obtained a Master of Arts degree and Master of Philosophy degree from Yale University. In 1988 Quiroga gained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from that university.
(In this comprehensive examination of the work of Octavio ...)
In this comprehensive examination of the work of Octavio Paz - winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature and Mexico's important literary and cultural figure - Jose Quiroga presents an analysis of Paz's writings in light of works by and about him. Combining broad erudition with scholarly attention to detail, Quiroga views Paz's work as an open narrative that explores the relationships between the poet, his readers and his time.
https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Octavio-European-American-Literature/dp/1570032637/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Understanding+Octavio+Paz&qid=1590392214&s=books&sr=1-1
1999
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From its sweaty beats to the pulsating music on the streets, Latin/o America is perceived in the United States as the land of heat, the toy store for Western sex. It is the territory of magical fantasy and of revolutionary threat, where topography is the travel guide of desire, directing imperial voyeurs to the exhibition of the flesh. Jose Quiroga flips the stereotype upside down: he shows how Latin/o American lesbians and gay men have consistently eschewed notions of sexual identity for a politics of intervention. In Tropics of Desire, Quiroga reads hesitant Mexican poets as sex-positive voices, he questions how outing and identity politics can fall prey to the manipulations of the state, and explores how invisibility has been used as a tactical tool in opposition to the universal imperative to come out. Drawing on diverse cultural examples such as the performance of bolero and salsa, film, literature, and correspondence, and influenced by masters like Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin and a rich tradition of Latin American stylists, Quiroga argues for a politics that denies biological determinism and cannibalizes cultural stereotypes for the sake of political action.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0814769535/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Tropics+of+Desire%3A+Interventions+from+Queer+Latino+America&qid=1590393050&s=books&sr=1-1
2000
(In Cuban Palimpsests, José Quiroga explores the sites, bo...)
In Cuban Palimpsests, José Quiroga explores the sites, both physical and imaginative, where memory bears upon Cuba’s collective history in ways that illuminate this extended moment of uncertainty. Crossing geographical, political, and cultural borders, Quiroga moves with ease between Cuba, Miami, and New York. He traces generational shifts within the exile community, contrasts Havana’s cultural richness with its economic impoverishment, follows the cloak-and-dagger narratives of revolutionary and counterrevolutionary spy fiction and film, and documents the world’s ongoing fascination with Cuban culture.
https://www.amazon.com/Jos%C3%A9-Quiroga/dp/0816642141/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Cuban+Palimpsests&qid=1590393382&s=books&sr=1-1
2005
(Law of Desire, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal P...)
Law of Desire, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal Pulp Press' new film book series Queer Film Classics, focuses on the 1987 homoerotic melodrama by Pedro Almodóvar, Spain's most successful contemporary film director.
https://www.amazon.com/Law-Desire-Queer-Classic-Classics-ebook/dp/B004HFRJOE/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Law+of+Desire%3A+A+Queer+Film+Classic&qid=1590393699&s=books&sr=1-1
2009
Jose A. Quiroga was born on May 3, 1959, in Havana, Cuba. He is a son of José and Rita Quiroga. He grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
In 1980 Jose Quiroga received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston University. In 1987 he obtained a Master of Arts degree and Master of Philosophy degree from Yale University. In 1988 Quiroga gained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from that university.
From 1986 to 1988 Jose Quiroga was an editor and publisher of Aldebaran: Revista de Literatura. He began as an assistant professor and became a professor of Spanish in 1988 at the George Washington University. He held visiting appointments at Columbia, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Maryland.
In 2002 he jointed Emory College of Arts and Science faculty and currently serves as a professor there. At Emory, Quiroga originated and directed the Argentina Study Abroad Program (2004-2009). He has been a Department Chair of Spanish and Portuguese, as well as a Director of Graduate Studies.
Quiroga is author of Cuban Palimpsests (2005), Tropics of Desire: Interventions from Queer Latino America (2000), Understanding Octavio Paz (1999), Sexualidades en disputa (2005), Law of Desire: A Queer Film Classic (2009), and Mapa Callejero, Cronicas sobre lo gay desde América Latina (2010). His current book project, "The Book of Flight" investigates the political relationship between dissidence and escape in Cold War and Contemporary Latino America. He is completing a co-authored book with Francisco Morán, The Havana Reader.
Quiroga is also a co-editor (with Licia Fiol-Matta) of the New Directions in Latino American Cultures an academic series at Palgrave/MacMillan which has published over 30 volumes on topics such as popular culture, chicanx sexualities, bilingualism, and psychoanalytic studies by scholars such as Ruben Gallo, Raquel Z. Rivera, Mabel Moraña, Idelber Avelar, Doris Sommer, Jacqueline Loss, Rafael Rojas, Silvio Torres-Saillant, and others.
He has been an invited keynote speaker at numerous United States and foreign universities, and is the author of essays and articles that have appeared and in journals such as Social Text, MLN, La Torre, Hispania, as well as in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Nation, and The San Juan Star.
His areas of specialization include Hispanic Caribbean and Latin/o American Gender, Sexuality and Queer Studies; Modern Poetry and Poetics in the Americas, and Cultural Studies (Film, Music, Performance).
(In this comprehensive examination of the work of Octavio ...)
1999(Law of Desire, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal P...)
2009(In Cuban Palimpsests, José Quiroga explores the sites, bo...)
2005(From its sweaty beats to the pulsating music on the stree...)
2000Jose Quiroga helped supervise the Cultura es Vida AIDS Prevention Program under the sponsorship of National Latino Lesbians and Gays (LLEGO).
Jose Quiroga is a member of the Postcolonial Studies Working Group.