Joseph Ortiz
I am currently Department Chair and the Dorrance D. Roderick Professor of English. A specialist in Renaissance and comparative literature, I received a BA in English and mathematics from Yale and a PhD in English Literature from Princeton. Before coming to UTEP in 2012, I was a postdoctoral fellow in Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities and a faculty member at SUNY Brockport. I am the author of Broken Harmony and the Politics of Music (Cornell, 2011) and Gordon Merrick and the Great Gay American Novel (Lexington, 2022), as well as the editor of Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism (Ashgate, 2013) and On the Origin and Progress of the Art of Music by John Taverner (Routledge, 2019). My research focuses on the reception of classical literature in English, Spanish, and Italian Renaissance literature, the relationship between music and literature in early modern Europe, and more recently the history of gay literature in America in the 20th century. I was recently awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Burkhardt Fellowship, which allowed me to spend a year at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, where I began work on my current book project on translation in classical and Renaissance epic.
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Email: Jmortiz7@utep.edu
Hudspeth Hall 320
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PhD, Princeton University
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