Periódicus mourns the death of Professor José Quiroga

The journal Periódicus deeply regrets the death of one of its Scientific Council members. José Antonio Quiroga, Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish at Emory University, died of natural causes at his home on January 11th. José was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1959. His family moved to Puerto Rico, where he lived until he moved to Boston to attend graduate school. After receiving his B.A. in English and Latin American Literature from Boston University and his Ph.D. in Spanish from Yale University, he taught at George Washington University before joining the Emory faculty in 2002.

His vast output includes the books Mapa Callejero. Crónicas sobre lo gay desde América Latina (Buenos Aires: Eterna Cadencia, 2010); Law of Desire: A Queer Film Classic (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2009); Cuban Palimpsests (U of Minnesota Press, 2005), Sexualidades en disputa: homosexualidades, literatura y medios de comunicación en América Latina (with Daniel Balderston, Buenos Aires: Libros del Rojas, 2005), Tropics of Desire (NYU Press, 2000), and Understanding Octavio Paz (U of South Carolina Press, 1999).

In 2012, at the invitation of NuCuS, Quiroga was at UFBA to participate as a speaker at the VI International Congress of Studies on Sexual and Gender Diversity, of the then ABEH, now ABETH (The Brazilian Association of Trans-Homoculture Studies).