Jorge Quintana Navarrete

|Assistant Professor
Academic Appointments

Assistant professor of Spanish

Jorge Quintana Navarrete is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Dartmouth College. He holds a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese from Princeton University and a master's degree in Latin American Literature from Universidad de Sonora. His research interests include Mexican culture (19th and 20th centuries), Utopian Studies, Environmental Humanities, and Critical Theory. He has published peer-reviewed articles in Hispanic Review, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Revista Hispánica Moderna, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, among others.

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Contact

Jorge.I.Quintana-Navarrete@dartmouth.edu
Dartmouth Hall, Room 201B
HB 6072

Department(s)

Spanish and Portuguese

Education

  • B.A. Universidad de Sonora
  • M.A. Universidad de Sonora
  • Ph. D. Princeton University

Selected Publications

  • "Hydraulic Energy, Nature, and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Mexico." Changes in the Landscape. Ed. Jennifer French. Vanderbilt University Press, 2025, 132-152.

  • "Mining, Racialization, and the Utopia of Desedimentation in Pedro Castera's Geological Writings." Special issue of Bulletin of Latin American Research, edited by Alejandro Ponce de León and Salomé Lopez Coelho, 2024, 1-11.

  • "Utopía y experimentación científica en el zoológico de Chapultepec." Reinvención de la metrópoli 1920-1940. Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 2024, 72-79.

  • "Geology." Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics. Eds. Jens Andermann, Gabriel Giorgi, Victoria Saramago. De Gruyter Press, 2023.

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