The UC Berkeley Department of English warmly welcomes Professor Raúl Coronado to the department as Associate Professor of English and of Spanish & Portuguese.
Professor Raúl Coronado's teaching and research aim to reconceptualize literature of the Americas in a transnational framework through the study of Latino/a literary and intellectual history from the colonial period to the 1940s. By historicizing the process by which certain genres came to be identified as literature, he focuses on the contemporary, social meaning of writing. His forthcoming teaching plans to focus on the development of a Latina/o public sphere in the United States; how 19th and early 20th century Latinos/as engaged with and theorized the development of a modernity in the Southwest, New Orleans and East Coast; Latino/a intellectual history and cultural studies; comparative postcolonial literatures and theories of 19th-century Americas; and the emergence of queer Latina/o print culture and publics. He won a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in American literature, which he put toward his book project, "The Emergence of the Latina/o Self, 1780-1870: Reason, Rights, Publics, Presence." Prior to joining the faculty at UC Berkeley in 2013, Coronado was an associate professor of English at the University of Chicago. He earned his doctorate in modern thought and literature in 2004 from Stanford University, where he also received his master’s.