Abril
Trigo, Distinguished Humanities Professor of Latin American Cultures
Areas of specialization
Latin American Cultural Studies
XIX Century Latin American Thought
Theater and Film
Popular Culture and Cultural Theory
Globalization Studies
Main publications
Critical Index of Uruguayan Theater/Indice critico del teatro uruguayo.Co-edited with Graciela Míguez. The Ohio State University Libraries, 2009.https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/html/1811/36396/index.html
Memorias migrantes. Testimonios y ensayos sobre la diáspora uruguaya. Rosario/Montevideo: Beatriz Viterbo Editora/Ediciones Trilce, 2003
The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader. Co-edited with Alicia Ríos and Ana Del Sarto. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004
Los estudios culturales latinoamericanos hacia el siglo XXI. co-edited with Alicia Ríos and Ana Del Sarto. Especial issue of Revista Iberoamericana 203 (2003)
¿Cultura uruguaya o culturas linyeras? (Para una cartografía de la neomodernidad posuruguaya). Montevideo: Vintén Editor, 1997
Caudillo, estado, nación. Literatura, historia e ideología en el Uruguay. Gaithersburg, MD: Ediciones Hispamérica, 1990
Current research projects
Crisis y transfiguración de los estudios culturales latinoamericanos.This is a book-length essay which analyzes the main critical paradigms as well as the most significant debates which shaped the field of Latin Americal cultural studies, evaluates the present situation of the field and projects its future directions in the larger context of globalization.
Para una crítica de la economía político-libidinal de la cultura. Book-length essay on the cultural global processes which combines a critique of material production (economics), a critique of power (politics), and a critique of the production of desires and social meanings (the libidinal and the symbolic). The book will attempt on elaborating a critique of culture that brings together a critique of political economy, a critique of ideological hegemony and a critique of libidinal economy, the missing subject in cultural studies.
