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Rodrigo Toromoreno
Literature Professor
Hayek Building, H-101A
Ph.D., Romance Languages and Literature, University of Michigan, USA
M.A. in Romance Languages and Literature, Spanish, University of Michigan, U.S.A.
B.A., Comparative and Hispanic American Literature, University of Toronto, Canada
Professional Profile
Rodrigo Toromoreno is a professor of literature at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. His research focuses on seventeenth-century natural histories, the rationalization of race, and the colonial worlds within which these intersect and collide. Currently, his work employs concepts from sound studies to look at the way in which colonial travel literature acoustically shaped New World spaces.
Interests
Natural history, sound studies, 17th century chronicles, colonial slavery.