Research/Areas of Interest:
Colonial Latin American Studies, Latin American and Spanish Poetry, Andean Studies, Film Studies, Endangered Languages
Education
- PhD, Princeton University, Princeton, United States, 1993
- MA, Princeton University, Princeton, United States, 1991
- MA, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States, 1989
- BA, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru, 1985
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru, 2033
Biography
José Antonio Mazzotti is King Felipe VI of Spain Professor of Spanish Culture and Civilization and Professor of Latin American literature at Tufts University. He has published numerous essays on El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, creole cultures, viceregal epic poetry, Latin American contemporary poetry, and documentation of Amazonian languages. Among other books, «Coros mestizos del Inca Garcilaso: resonancias andinas» (1996), «Poéticas del flujo: migración y violencia verbales en el Perú de los 80» (2002), «Incan Insights: El Inca Garcilaso's Hints to Andean Readers» (2008), «Encontrando un Inca: ensayos escogidos sobre el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega» (2016), «The Creole Invention of Peru: Ethnic Nation and Epic Poetry in Colonial Lima» (2019), etc. He has just finished a book manuscript entitled «El Inca Garcilaso y la invención del Perú» and is currently preparing a book on the great Peruvian poet César Vallejo. Prof. Mazzotti is President of the International Association of Peruvianists since 1995 and director of the Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana since 2010. His collection «El Zorro y la Luna (poemas reunidos 1981-2016)» received the José Lezama Lima International Prize of Poetry from Casa de las Américas, Cuba, in 2018.