Jorge H. Salessi

Associate Professor of Romance Languages; Director of Spanish Programs Abroad

19th-century Latin American literature. He has published numerous articles on sexuality and nation formation, tango, nationalism and sexuality, photography and the performativity of gender, homosexual prostitution, and turn-of-the-century taxonomies of sexual deviance. He is the author of Médicos, maleantes y maricas: higiene, criminología y homosexualidad en Argentina 1870-1914 (Beatriz Viterbo Editora, 1995), a study of hygiene and criminology as State systems to control homosexual Argentine culture of the turn of the century. He is also an editor of the Journal of the History of Sexuality.

• E-mail: jsalessi@sas.upenn.edu
• Office: 508 Williams Hall
• Telephone: (215) 573-0239
• Fax: (215) 898-0933
• Office Hours: Spring 2008: MW 11:30-2