Robert Aguirre

Professor of English at the University of Windsor (Canada), I am trained broadly in English and American literature after 1800. My work concerns transatlantic literary relations between Great Britain and Latin America, museum cultures, and the relations of literature to the visual arts. My scholarly books and articles, as well as my teaching, explore the way works of art respond to as well as imaginatively transform their culture, often in comparative, transnational contexts. Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture (2004) details how British writers and intellectuals engaged in an extensive traffic in artifacts, images, and narratives to shape and control a little-known world. Mobility and Modernity: Panama in the Nineteenth-century Anglo-American Imagination(2017), inspired by the field of mobility studies, asks how literary and visual representations defined a narrow isthmus as central to emerging transit and information systems. My current research extends these concerns to the field of nineteenth-century expeditionary photography, with a specific focus on Eadweard Muybridge. My LinkedIn page is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-d-aguirre-2101041a/