Vincent Cervantes, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, researches and writes on the topics of Latin American cultural studies, critical theory, performance studies, queer theory, and contemporary literature. He received a Ph.D. in Spanish and Latin American Studies in the Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture Doctoral Program at the University of Southern California. He also holds a Master’s in Theological Studies (M.T.S.) from Harvard Divinity School and a B.A. from the University of California, Riverside.

He is currently completing a monograph entitled, A Body Exposed: Sex, Death, and the Aesthetics of Mexican and Latino Modernity. This work examines the performance and representations of sex and death, from mid-century nationalist narratives to contemporary queer performance art, as literary and embodied practices that gesture toward ideas of nationalism, state violence, and sexual politics in contemporary Mexican and Latino cultural production.