About Sergio Delgado Moya

Sergio Delgado Moya is the author of Delirious Consumption: Aesthetics and Consumer Capitalism in Mexico and Brazil (University of Texas Press, 2017), and of The Logic of Sensationalism: Approaches to Art and Death in the Americas (forthcoming with University of Texas Press). He is co-editor, with Tom Cummins and José Falconi, of Conceptual Stumblings, a volume on experimental art in Chile (forthcoming 2019). His translation of Suely Rolnik's Spheres of Insurrection: Notes on Decolonizing the Unconscious (2023) was published by Polity Press. 

His articles, reviews, and short-form essays are published in Frieze; Film Criticism; Revista Hispánica Moderna; Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Review: Literature and Art of the Americas; HemiPress; Cuadernos de Literatura; Handbook of International Futurism (ed. Günter Berghaus); and Online Activism in Latin América (Routledge, 2017, ed. Hilda Chacón). 

At the University of Chicago, Sergio offers courses on radical thought in the Americas, the Latin American avant-gardes, art in Chile, Chicanx art and literature, storytelling along the U.S.-Mexico, and the literatures and cultures of Northern Mexico. Prior to his appointment at UChicago, Prof. Delgado Moya was Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University and at Emory, and Visiting Researcher at the Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros (IEB) at the Universidade de São Paulo (USP). 

He earned a Ph.D. in Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures from Princeton University, and a B.A. in Philosophy and in Spanish Language and Literature (Highest Honors), from the University of California at Berkeley. He was born in Tijuana, Mexico, and raised in the Californias.

Education

  • BA in Spanish, University of California, Berkeley
  • MA in Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures, Princeton University
  • PhD in Spanish Literature and Language, Princeton University

Professional Fields

Work History

  • Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Emory University
  • Portuguese Undergraduate Adviser, University of Chicago
  • Associate Professor of Latin American and Latinx Studies, University of Chicago
  • Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

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