Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Sebastián Antezana Quiroga is International Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Hispanic Studies and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, with an affiliation with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. He received a Ph.D. in romance studies from Cornell University in 2019 and worked as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at Dickinson College and the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Syracuse University. His book project, “Migrant Afterlives: Spectral Narratives of Greater Mexico and Greater Bolivia,” focuses on migrant communities in contemporary literature and film from the Mexican and Bolivian cultural spectrums, on the ways in which these communities are strategically associated with specters and other afterlife figures, and on how this association reflects the disjointing, spectral logic of different variants of the national model (like the transnational, the multinational, and the postnational) that operate in unison. He has published several academic articles and book chapters and is the author of three books of fiction. In Fall 2025 he will begin the tenure-track position of Assistant Professor of Spanish at Xavier University.