Center for the Study of the Early Modern World

Juan Carlos is an Ecuadorian scholar of the art histories and comparative literatures of early modernity. He is an assistant professor of World Literature in the Department of English, with a Ph.D. from Columbia University in Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Comparative Literature and Society, and Medieval and Renaissance. His teaching and research focus on the creative interactions between different fields of knowledge across the Global South combining material and visual culture, the history of writing and literacy; geology and archaeology, and critical theory. His scholarship has received the support of the Social Science Research Council, the Freie Universität Berlin’s Graduate School of Literary Studies, The Max Planck Institute for Art History, the Humboldt–Universität zu Berlin’s Institute for Art and Visual History, The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies (BBQ+), the Getty Foundation Connecting Art Histories initiative, the Berlin Transregionale Academy, and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life at Columbia University. His recent work has appeared in Vistas, Verso, Relating Continents, and Telar.