ZEB TORTORICI
Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail:
zebbie@gmail.com
Field
Colonial Latin America, History of Sexuality, Queer Studies
Research Interests
"Contra Natura: Sin, Sexuality, and the Unnatural in Colonial Mexico, 1600-1800"
Histories of Suicide in Colonial Latin America
Human-Animal Studies, Animals in Latin America
History of Pornography, Queer Studies
Publications
• “A Novel and Economical Synthesis of 2''-O-Alkyl-Uridines"
Authors: Bruce S. Ross, Robert H. Springer, Zeb Tortorici, and Stuart Dimock. Published in: Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids, Volume 16, Issue 7 - 9 July 1997. (Routldege, 1997)
• “‘Heran Todos Putos’: Sodomitical Subcultures and Disordered Desire in Early Colonial Mexico” in Sexual Encounters/Sexual Collisions: Alternative Sexualities in Colonial Mesoamerica, a special issue of the Journal of Ethnohistory 54:1, eds. John Chuchiak and Pete Sigal (Duke University Press, January 2007)
• “Masturbation, Salvation, and Desire: Connecting Sexuality and Religiosity in Colonial Mexico” in Latin American Sexualities, a special issue of Journal of the History of Sexuality 16:3, ed. Ramón A. Gutiérrez (University of Texas Press, September 2007)
• “Queering Pornography: Desiring Youth, Race, and Fantasy in Gay Porn” in Queer Youth Cultures, ed. Susan Driver (SUNY Press, February 2008). I dedicate this essay to Srdjan Rajkovic.
• “Representations of Bestiality, Historical Voyeurism, and the Pornography of the Past” in Ethnopornography: Sexuality, Colonialism, and Anthropological Knowing, eds. Pete Sigal and Neil Whitehead (Duke University Press, forthcoming in 2010)
• “Reading the (Dead) Body: Histories of Suicide in New Spain” in Death and Dying in Colonial Latin America, eds. Miruna Achim and Martina Will de Chaparro (University of New Mexico Press, forthcoming in 2010).
• “Baptized Dogs, Canine Weddings, and Cynographic Funerals in Eighteenth-Century Mexico” in Centering Animals: Writing Animals into Latin American History, eds. Martha Few and Zeb Tortorici (unknown publisher, forthcoming in 2011)
• “Queer Traces of Colonialism: Reading Sodomy and Sexuality in Mexican Archives” in Archiving Pleasures, eds. Daniel Marshall and Joan Nestle (unknown publisher, forthcoming in 2010).
Grants and Awards
• Recipient of the 2008 Gregory Sprague Prize, for essay “Heran Todos Putos,” awarded by the American Historical Association Committee on Lesbian and Gay History (CLGH) for an outstanding published article on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, transsexual, and/or queer history completed by a graduate student in 2006 and 2007.
• Recipient of the 2000 UCLA Mary Ritter Beard Essay Award in Women’s History for an essay entitled “Women, Mediation, and Power in Colonial Mexico”
Advisors
Kevin Terraciano (Chair)
Robin Derby
Teo Ruiz
James Schultz
Conference Presentations
February 2003; UC Riverside
UC-LGBTIA Coming Home Queer conference Riverside, California
• Jointly presented a paper with Grant Peterson entitled “Gender/Race Performativity in Gay Male Public Spaces”
October 2003; UCLA QGRAD
Los Angeles, California
• “Queering Pornography?: Race, Fantasy, and Intimacy”
October 2004; LASA
Las Vegas, Nevada
• “‘Sodomitical Subcultures and Disordered Desire in Colonial Mexico”
March 2005; SSPHS Charleston, South Carolina
• “Sexuality and Disorder in Colonial Mexico”
November 2005; Ethnohistory
Santa Fe, New Mexico
• “Animals, Indians, and the Category of the ‘Unnatural’ in Colonial Mexico”
October 2006; Enkindu Mexico City, Mexico
• Presented a paper entitled “Culling Sexuality, Eroticism, and Religiosity in Colonial Mexico”
November 2006; Ethnohistory Williamsburg, Virginia
• “Animals, Sacraments, and Souls: The Ideological Placement of Animals within Christian Theology and Eighteenth-Century Colonial Mexico”
January 2007; Latin American Sexualities San Diego, California
• “Desiring Virgins, Saints, and Nuns: Culling Female Sexuality and Religiosity in Colonial Mexico”
March 2007; Sexuality & Colonialism Duke University: Durham, North Carolina
• “From Bestiality to Nahualismo: Animals, Indians, and the Category of the ‘Unnatural’ in Colonial Mexico”
March 2007; Sexuality, Violence & Cultural Imagination
University of Wisconsin: Madison, Wisconsin
• “Making Sense of Defilement: Sex Work, BDSM Aesthetics, and the Re-contextualization of Sexual Violence”
September 2007; LASA Montreal, Canada
• Co-organized a panel entitled “Unnatural Acts: ‘Normative’ Gender and ‘Aberrant’ Sex in Colonial Latin America” with Dr. Chad Black (University of Tennessee).
• “Rum, Pustules, and Religion vis-à-vis the Mexican Inquisition”
January 2008; American Historical Association Washington D.C.
• “Gossip, Scandal, and the Sexual Solicitation of Boys in Colonial Mexico” at the 122nd Annual Meeting of the AHA
April 2008; Homoeroticisms Conference
USC: Los Angeles, California
• “‘Por Solicitar Hombres en el Confesionario’: Sexual Scandal and the Clergy in Colonial Mexico” at the Huntington Library’s Homoeroticisms Conference organized by Sherry Velasco and Marta V. Vicente
January 2009; American Historical Association New York
• “Eroticized Devotion, Feigned Religiosity, and Deprecation vis-à-vis the Mexican Inquisition" at the 123rd Annual Meeting of the AHA
March 2009; RMCLAS Santa Fe, New Mexico
• “Unnatural Death: Suicide, Abortion, and Infanticide in New Spain”
June 2009; LASA Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• “Women at the Margins of the Unnatural: Abortion and Infanticide in New Spain”
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