Jorge Quintana Navarrete

|Associate Professor
Academic Appointments

Associate Professor of Spanish

Jorge Quintana Navarrete is Associate Professor of Spanish at Dartmouth College. His research interests include Mexican culture (19th and 20th centuries), Utopian Studies, Environmental Humanities, and Science and Technolgy Studies. 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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