Molly Borowitz

Molly Borowitz is Assistant Professor of Transatlantic Early Modern Literature and Cultural Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She works on interactions between imperial institutions and their individual subjects in the early modern Spanish Empire, focusing in particular on the Viceroyalty of Peru. Her work traces the relationships between 16th- and 17th-century cultural production (legal, political, and religious writing in addition to narrative prose, poetry, and drama) and 20th- and 21st-century critical and decolonial theory. Her interests include subject formation in the Baroque and colonial contexts, representations and performances of interior experience, aesthetic and cultural manifestations of coloniality and capitalism, and the emergence of the modern State. At Georgetown, she teaches classes on early modern Spanish, Spanish-American, and Indigenous literature and culture.