Vinodh Venkatesh

A faculty member in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures since 2011, Vinodh Venkatesh is Professor of Spanish and the author of three books: Capitán Latinoamérica: Superheroes in Cinema, Television, and Web Series (SUNY P, 2020), New Maricón Cinema: Outing Latin American Film (U of Texas P, 2016), and The Body as Capital: Masculinities in Contemporary Latin American Fiction (U of Arizona P, 2015). He co-edited with María del Carmen Caña Jiménez Horacio Castellanos Moya: El diablo en el espejo (Albatros, 2016). He has also written for The Conversation, Filmatique, and InkStick Media.

Venkatesh serves on the editorial boards of Chasqui, Journal of Men’s Studies, Hispanófila, Hispania, Romance Notes, Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities, and MIFLC Review.

Venkatesh has won several awards for his teaching, research, and service at Virginia Tech.