Zeb Tortorici’s research focuses on gender, sexuality, and religion in colonial Latin America, queer archives, and the archiving/censorship of erotica and the “obscene” in Latin America, from the 18th century to the present. His book Sins against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain (2018) received several prizes including the John Boswell Award from the Committee on LGBT History and the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize. His edited or coedited books include Centering Animals in Latin American History(2013); Sexuality and the Unnatural in Colonial Latin America (2016); Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History (2019); Ethnopornography: Sexuality, Colonialism, and Archival Knowledge (2020); and Baptism Through Incision: The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire (2020). He has coedited special issues of Radical History Review and TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies.

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