Jorge Coronado, Professor of Latin American and Andean Literatures and Cultures, has been awarded a Berlin Prize by the American Academy in Berlin. The highly coveted fellowship is awarded annually to scholars, writers, composers, and artists from the United States who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields, from the humanities and social sciences to journalism, public policy, fiction, the visual arts, and music composition. Fellows spend a semester at the Academy’s lakeside Hans Arnhold Center, a historic nineteenth-century villa located in Berlin’s Wannsee district.
Chosen by an independent selection committee and funded by the Academy, fellows advance important scholarly and artistic projects, free from the constraints of other professional obligations. Fellows work with Berlin peers and institutions in the Academy’s well-established network, forging connections that lead to lasting transatlantic collaborations. During their stays, fellows engage German audiences through lectures, readings, and performances, which form the core of the American Academy’s public program.
During his semester-long fellowship in Berlin, Professor Coronado will explore a corpus of texts authored by Indigenous peoples in roughly the first half of the twentieth century in order to understand how they employed modern ideologies alongside native worldviews in their self-representation and, especially, in critiques of the political, economic and social worlds they inhabited. He will avail himself of Berlin’s rich resources in Latin American studies, including at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut. He expects to be in residence at the Academy after Fall 2023.