Luis Duno-Gottberg

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Luis Duno-Gottberg is a Venezuelan academic and professor at Rice University, where he holds the Lee Hage Jamail Chair in Latin American studies.[1] His research focuses on Caribbean and Latin American culture, visual culture, race, and political violence.[2] Duno-Gottberg has authored and edited works on modern slavery in the Americas, mestizaje in Cuba, and the cultural representations of disasters and incarceration in Latin America.[3]

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Early life and education

Duno-Gottberg was born in Venezuela to Estela Gottberg, a neuroscientist, and Pedro Duno, a philosopher. In 1994, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, graduating summa cum laude.[4]

He later attended the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned a Master's degree in Latin American Literature in 1996.[1] He also completed a Doctoral Certificate in Cultural Studies. In 2000, he earned his PhD in Latin American Literature at the University of Pittsburgh.[citation needed]

Career

Duno-Gottberg's academic career includes teaching and administrative roles in Venezuela and the United States.[5] He has served as a juror for several literary and professional competitions, including the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Venezuelan Section Prize (2011), the Rómulo Gallegos International Literary Prize in Venezuela (2013),[6][7][8] the José Donoso International Literary Prize in Chile (2022),[9] and the LASA Fernando Coronil Prize for Venezuelan Studies (2022).[10]

He also co-curated the exhibition "La Furia del Viento" at the Fototeca de Cuba, which featured over 120 years of photography documenting earthquakes and hurricanes.[11][12][13]

2000–2008

After completing his PhD, Duno-Gottberg returned to Venezuela to join the faculty at Universidad Simón Bolívar.[14] He taught there from 2000 to 2003, where his courses focused on Latin American literature and cultural theory. In 2003, Duno-Gottberg accepted a position at Florida Atlantic University, where he served as Associate professor and Director of Caribbean and Latin American Studies.[15] He also chaired the Comparative literature program before leaving the university in 2008.[16]

2008–present

Duno-Gottberg joined Rice University in 2008 and was promoted to full professor in 2019.[17][18] He served as Department Chair of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies from 2016 to 2020.[19] His administrative roles at Rice include serving as the founding Magister of Duncan College (2009–2015)[20] and Magister of Baker College (2017–2023).[21] In 2025, he was appointed the founding Magister of Chao College.[22][23]

Notable works

Books

  • Albert Camus, Naturaleza: Patria y Exilio[24]
  • Solventar las diferencias: La ideología del mestizaje en Cuba (2003)[25]
  • La humanidad como mercancía: Introducción a la esclavitud en América y el Caribe (2014)[26]
  • El ojo de la serpiente. Fotografía y visualidad del desastre «natural» en cuba (Forthcoming 2027)

Fiction

  • The Complainers Blood. Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd, London (2026)

Edited volumes

  • Carceral Communities: Troubling Prison Worlds in 21st Century Latin America (2021)[27]
  • La derecha como autoritarismo en el siglo XXI (2020)[28].
  • The Films of Arturo Ripstein: The Sinister Gaze of the World (2019)[29]
  • La politica encarnada. Biopolítica y Cultura en la Venezuela Bolivariana (2015)[30][31]
  • Haiti and the Americas (2013)[32]
  • Submerged. Sumergido. Alternative Cuban Cinema (2013)[33]
  • Miradas al margen. Cine y subalternidad en América Latina (2008)[34]
  • Imagen y Subalternidad. El cine de Víctor Gaviria (2003)[35]

Articles (Peer Reviewed)

  • “Lo que dejó la marea: Algunas hipótesis sobre un cine posnacional, desterritorializado y posrentista en Venezuela”, Fantasma Materia. Revista Anual de Cine (N. 2, 2025)
  • “The Mythological Machine and The Revolutionary Remains of Hugo Chávez.  Reflections on Memorialization and Conservative Returns.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies. Volume 28, 2024, pp. 243-255
  • “Maqui-Naciones Caníbales: Apropiaciones tecnológicas en América Latina / Cannibal Machi-Nations: Technological Appropriations in Latin America”, Accesos. Revista de investigaciones artísticas, Universidad Complutense, 6, pp.90-100, Madrid 2022.
  • “Cismas y sismos del latinoamericanismo y la cuestión de la subalternidad: Un homenaje al pensamiento de John Beverley”, A Contracorriente, North Carolina State University. Vol. 19 No. 2 (2022): Winter 2022.
  • “¿Precariato revolucionario o las turbas del rey? Nuevos sujetos de la política venezolana y soberanía lumpen (notas para pensar un nuevo pueblo)”, Revista Espacio Abierto, Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela. vol. 31, núm. 2, pp. 121-137, 2022.
  • “El cinematógrafo contra el caníbal: Ruido y modernidad en el primer cine sonoro venezolano,” Vivomatografías. Revista de estudios sobre precine y cine silente en Latinoamérica Año 6, n. 6, December 2020.
  • “Transaction & Transition. Photographing Change in Contemporary Cuba.” NACLA (North American Congress on Latin America) Report on the Americas, 48.2 (2016): pp. 191-199.
  • "Geografías del miedo en el cine venezolano contemporáneo: Soy un delincuente (1976) y Secuestro Express (2005)." Revista Ensayos. Historia y teoría del arte. No. 9 (2011) pp. 40-64.
  • “Narrating  from the  Ruins:  Cubagua and  La  Galera de  Tiberio  by Enrique Bernardo Núñez.” Journal of Caribbean Literatures, 6.2 (2010): pp. 13-24.
  • “Narrativas somáticas y cambio social: Notas para el cuadro venezolano.” Revista Estudios (Special issue on Cuerpos enfermos / Contagios culturales, coordinated by Nathalie Bouzaglo y Javier Guerrero), 17:34 (July-Decemeber 2009): pp. 403-437.
  • “Social Images of Anti-Apocalypse: Bikers and the Representation of Popular Politics in Venezuela.” A Contracorriente, 6.2 (Winter 2009): pp. 144-172. Available at: http://www.ncsu.edu/project/acontracorriente/D_Gottberg.pdf
  • “Huellas de lo Real: Testimonio y cine de la delincuencia en Venezuela y Colombia.” Revista Iberoamericana, LXXIV.223 (2008): pp. 531-555. (Co-authored with Forrest Hylton).
  • "El relato de las ruinas: Enrique Bernardo Núñez y su imaginario contra-colonial caribeño." TINKUY (Special issue on Entre las “ruinas” y la descolonización. Reflexiones desde la literatura del Gran Caribe) 13 (June 2010): pp. 77-85.
  • Transaction & Transition: Photographing Change in Contemporary Cuba (2016)[36]
  • Geografías del miedo en el cine venezolano contemporáneo (2011)[37]

Opinion

  • “Doctrina Donroe. Venezuela después de Maduro”, CTXT Revista Contexto, https://ctxt.es/es/20260601/Firmas/53715/venezuela-nicolas-maduro-delcy-rodriguez-doctrina-donroe-imperialismo-luis-duno-gottberg.htm, 5/06/2026
  • “El ídolo dorado de Trump y la ética del monumento¨, ETHIC, Spain, https://ethic.es/idolo-dorado-trump-etica-monumento, 04/26/26
  • “Escuchar el acento. Contra las estructuras audibles del poder”, ETHIC, Spain, https://ethic.es/escuchar-acento-contra-estructuras-audibles-poder, 04/03/26.
  • “Trump y la transparencia narcisista del poder”, ETHIC, Spain, https://ethic.es/trump-transparencia-narcisista-poder, 02/02/26
  • “Intervención militar en Venezuela: las elecciones cuentan, pero el control cuenta más”, El Diario, Spain, 05/01/2026.
  • “La mueca autoritaria”, ETHIC, Spain, https://ethic.es/mueca-autoritaria, 01/28/26
  • “El Odio como mercancía”, ETHIC, Spain. https://ethic.es/  01/07/26
  • “El hombre Fuerte del resentimiento”, ETHIC, Spain. https://ethic.es/, 12/19/25
  • “Pantaleón y la política exterior de Trump con Venezuela”, La Jornada, México, Feb 2025, https://www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025/02/15/opinion/pantaleon-y-la-politica-exterior-de-trump-con-venezuela-5630
  • “Y nos vamos todos juntos: Migración y resistencia indígena en el contexto de la hegemonía neoliberal”, https://loquierasono.democracia.com.es/textos/migracion-y-resistencia-indigena, 2024.
  • “Casas de cartón: cantos de contienda para una modernidad desigual”, https://loquierasono.democracia.com.es/textos/casas-de-carton, , 2024.
  • “Tecnologías del odio antinmigrante en la frontera México-EU”, La Jornada, Mexico, 8/18/2023 (With Miguel Tinker-Salas), https://www.jornada.com.mx/2023/08/18/opinion/014a1pol
  • “La deshumanización del inmigrante y guerra política en EU”, La Jornada, Mexico, 2023/09/17 (With Miguel Tinker-Salas), https://www.jornada.com.mx/notas/2023/07/20/politica/la-deshumanizacion-del-inmigrante-y-guerra-politica-en-eu/
  • “El éxodo Venezolano“, La Jornada, Mexico, december 13, 2022. (With Miguel Tinker-Salas), www.jornada.com.mx/2022/12/13/opinion/018a2pol#.Y5isM48kBHw
  • “Katrina y el tercer mundo al norte del Río Bravo,” La Jibarilla at http://www.lajiribilla.cu/2005/n227_09/227_39.html. Also at: Aporrea at http://www.aporrea.org/tiburon/a16599.html (2005).
  • “Víctor Gaviria en la tradición del cine latinoamericano,” in Puro Colombia. A Retrospective of Colombian Cinema. Catalog for a film series hosted at Florida Atlantic University and Cinema Paradiso. March 2005.

Awards and recognitions

In 2010, the Venezuelan Studies Section of the LASA awarded Duno-Gottberg the Best Paper in the Humanities award.[38][39] He received an "Honorary Mention" for best research article from the same organization in 2012. Additionally, he was a recipient of the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching at Rice University in 2015, 2017, and 2026.[40][41]

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