Vinodh Venkatesh

Vinodh Venkatesh is Professor of Spanish and the author of three monographs: 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) and Crisis TV: Hispanic Television Narratives after 2008 (SUNY P, 2024). He has authored over forty-five articles and book chapters on contemporary Latin American and Spanish literature, cinema, and television.

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.