Michael C. Aronna

Michael Aronna is a Professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies and a participating member of the Program of Latin American and Latinx Studies at Vassar College. Aronna earned a Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literature from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.A. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures, and a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Stony Brook University.

Mr. Aronna is the author of ‘Pueblos enfermos’: The Discourse of Illness in the Turn-of-the-Century Spanish and Latin American Essay (1999). He is co-editor with Lisa Parvisini-Gebert of The General and Natural History of the Indies, Islands, and Mainland of the Ocean Sea; An English Translation, Volume 1 (2026); co-editor with José Colmeiro of Perspectivas Transátlanticas: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán y Latinoamérica (2020); and co-editor and translator with John Beverley and José Oviedo of The Postmodernism Debate in Latin America (1995). Aronna’s published articles and book chapters concern the relationship between scientific discourse, racial profiling, and national identity; testimonial narrative; and the ideological legacy of the Battle of Lepanto of 1571 in contemporary geopolitical and biopolitical discourse. He is currently working on a manuscript titled Hispanic Cartographies of 'Just Wars,' Ethnic Cleansing and the War on Terror.

Michael Aronna has taught courses in colonial and modern Latin American cultural history, including “The Natural and Moral History of the Spanish Empire,” “The Utopia of Latin America,” “Screening the Past: Filmic Adaptations of Latin American Colonial Society,” “Science Fiction, Horror and the Occult in Latin America,” and “Detective Fiction in Latin America.”