Javier Irigoyen-García, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, has been selected as an inaugural LAS Dean's Distinguished Professorial Scholar.
This is a new recognition created by the College in which the LAS Executive Committee in reviewing faculty members considered for promotion from Associate to Full Professor, “identified those with outstanding records to be recipients of this award.”
Mariselle Meléndez, Professor and Head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, commented, “This is a great distinction and one that attests to Javier’s excellent record in the areas of research, teaching and service. We are very lucky to have Javier as one of the first recipients of this award.”
Irigoyen-García also is Director of Graduate Studies for the department. His research areas include Early Modern Iberian literature and culture. He is the author of “Moors Dressed as Moors”: Clothing, Social Distinction, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia (University of Toronto Press, 2017), and The Spanish Arcadia: Sheep Herding, Pastoral Discourse, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Spain (University of Toronto Press, 2013).
He is currently working on a project, tentatively entitled Utopias of Infamy, dealing with the political value of insults as a source of collective identity in the early modern Spanish imaginary.