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Carlos Ortiz
Assistant Professor
Spanish and Portuguese

Carlos A. Ortiz

Contact Info

513-529-3826
266 Irvin Hall

Originally from Chile, Professor Ortiz completed his undergraduate studies at CUNY Hunter College (New York). He later moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where he earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in the theatre and visual cultures of the Latinx Americas. His research focuses on the intersections of 20th and 21st-century Latin American literature and culture, hemispheric approaches to theatre and performance, queer studies, transnational studies, and gender and sexuality studies. As a first-generation scholar, he is dedicated to amplifying the opportunities for BIPOC and other underprivileged communities to pursue higher education.

Education

Ph.D. Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2023)

M.A. Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2016)

B.A. Spanish and Latin American Literature, CUNY Hunter College (2014)

Research and Teaching Areas

  • Latin American and Latinx Studies
  • Theatre & Performance Studies
  • Queer & Gender Studies
  • Transnational Performance Studies
  • Visual Culture Studies

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

  • “Awaiting Revolution: Performing Chile’s Hierarchies in Ernesto Orellana’s Inútiles.” Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures. 76.3 (Fall 2022): 156-171.
  • “Manuela Infante.” Fifty Key Figures in LatinX and Latin American Theatre. eds. Paola Hernández and Analola Santana. Routledge, 2022. pp. 87-90

Conference Participation

Individual Presentations

  • “Technobodies, Sexual Dissidence, and the Cyberactivism of Josecarlo Henríquez.” 2022 American Society for Theatre Research Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA. November 2022.  
  • “Covertly Triggering the Archive on Stage.” Flash Talks on Archives and Literature. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. University of Wisconsin-Madison. October 2022.
  • “Performing Plant-Thinking.” The Hemispheric Institute at New York University - 6th Graduate Student Convergence (GSI): Intimate Architectures: Displacement, Irruption, and Emergency in the Americas. University of Chicago. October 2021. 
  • “Silencio Blanco and the New Approaches to Puppetry in Chile.” 2021 American Society for Theatre Research Annual Conference. October 2020. (Canceled due to COVID-19)
  • “Defining a Non-Anthropocentric Theatre: The Methods and Reconceptualizations of Manuela Infante.” 2019 American Society for Theatre Research Annual Conference. Arlington, VA. November 2019.
  • “Dissident Acts: Disputing Kinship in the Contemporary Chilean Stage.” 2019 ASLE Biennial Conference. University of California, Davis. June 2019. 
  • “#SoyPuto, redes sociales y lo televisual como espacios contrapúblicos: el caso de Josecarlo Henríquez.” 28th Annual Meeting of the Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies. University of Illinois at Chicago. September 2018.
  • “Inútiles: (de)constructing racism and classism through the liminoid.” Engendering Change 2018: 8th Annual Gender and Sexualities Conference. University of Chicago. April 2018.
  • “¿Democracia en el Chile contemporáneo? Escuela de Guillermo Calderón como contra-discurso para la historia establecida.” Mid-American Conference on Hispanic Literatures (MACHL). University of Kansas. November 2016.
  • “Developments of Ecodramaturgy in Chile: Cisnes de papel, Queering Ecology through Performance.” Encuentro: Excéntrico. The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Santiago, Chile. July 2016.

Organized Lectures

  • “Submerged and Decolonial Ecologies: The Urgency of Land and Water Defense,” by Macarena Gómez-Barris, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. February 12, 2020.
  • “Blackface and Catedracismo in Miami: Performing Ibero-America in the Age of Obama,” by Danielle Roper, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. January 29, 2020. 
  • “Spectral Desires: Queer Kinship in the Family Album,” by Joseph Pierce, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. October 31, 2019. 
  • “El teatro nunca ha sido humano,” by Manuela Infante, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. March 10, 2018.

Awards and Honors

  • 2022 Innovation in Teaching Award. Department of Spanish and Portuguese 2022-23 (Nominee). College of Letters & Sciences, Teaching & Learning Administration, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • 2022 Lyman S.V. Judson and Ellen Mackechnie Judson Graduate Student Award in the Creative Arts. Division of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Fall 2019 University Housing Honored Instructor, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Fall 2018 University Housing Honored Instructor, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Fall 2016 University Housing Honored Instructor, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Grants and Funding

  • Student Research Grants Competition: Conference Presentation Award. Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Funding, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Fall 2022.
  • Graduate Student Travel Grant Award 2022-2023. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2022.
  • Graduate School Dissertator Fellowship. Graduate School - Office of Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (funding from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and the UW-Madison). Fall 2021.
  • Dissertation Write-Up Award. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Summer 2021.
  • Tinker-Nave Field Research Grant. Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2020.
  • Graduate Research Award. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2020.
  • Graduate Student Conference Fund. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University ofWisconsin-Madison. Summer 2020.
  • Student Research Grants Competition: Conference Presentation Award . Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Funding, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Fall 2019.
  • Invoking the Pause: Theatre in the Age of Climate Change Travel Grant. HowlRound Theatre Commons and Invoking the Pause (Miami, Florida). 2019.
  • Student Research Grants Competition: Conference Presentation Award. Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Funding, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Spring 2019.
  • Graduate Student Travel Grant Award 2018-2019. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2019.
  • Travel Grant - 28th Annual Meeting of the Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago. 2018.
  • Travel Grant - 10th Encuentro “eX-céntrico: dissidence, sovereignties, performance,” Santiago, Chile. The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University. 2016.
(As Director of Teatro Décimo Piso)
  • Travel Grant. Associated Students of Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison (rejected due to COVID-19). Spring 2020.
  • Wisconsin Experience Grant. Center for Leadership and Involvement, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2020. 
  • Global Badger Experience Grant. International Student Services, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Spring 2020.
  • Julie Vogt Open Stages 2020 (Spring 2020). Theatre and Drama Graduate Students Organization (TDGSO), University of Wisconsin-Madison. Spring 2020.
  • Julie Vogt Open Stages 2019. Theatre and Drama Graduate Students Organization (TDGSO), University of Wisconsin-Madison. Spring 2019. 
  • Roberto G. Sanchez Distinguished Lectureship Fund. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Spring 2019.
  • Global Badger Experience Grant. International Student Services, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Fall 2019.
  • ASM Event Grant. Associated Students of Madison, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Fall 2019.

Theater and Performance Experience

  • Co-director (with Jorge Cienfuegos) and Producer of El amor de las luciérnagas by Alejandro Ricaño (full production by Teatro Décimo Piso). Hemsley Theatre, University of Wisconsin-Madison, February 28-March 1, 2020.
  • Director and Producer of The Gardens of Aztlán by Luis Alfaro (full production by Teatro Décimo Piso). Hemsley Theatre, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 9, 2019.
  • Co-director (with Dr. Paola Hernández) of Antígona: las voces que incendian el desierto by Perla de la Rosa (full production). Play Circle Theatre, Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 4-5, 2018.
  • Co-Director and Actor in Eran tres y ahora son cuatro by Myrna Casas (full production). Teatro Décimo Piso. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Bascom Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison. March 11, 2017.
  • Actor in Tararí by Valentín Andrés Álvarez (full production by Teatro Décimo Piso). Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Bascom Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 12, 2016.
  • Actor in Música de balas by Hugo Salcedo (full production). Play Circle Theatre, Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 8-9, 2015.
  • Actor in Avispas en febrero by Gustavo Pernas Cora (full production by Teatro Décimo Piso). Dejope Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 14, 2015.

Workshops and Working Groups Organized

  • “Weaving of Knowledges in Thinking Beyond the Human.” (co-organized with Florencia Carrizo). The Hemispheric Institute at New York University - 6th Graduate Student Convergence (GSI) "Intimate Architectures: Displacement, Irruption, and Emergency in the Americas." University of Chicago. October 4-8, 2021.
  • “Performing Rupture with Theatre LILA and Décimo Piso.” (co-organized with Megan Bailon) Kaleidoscope 2018. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. University of Wisconsin-Madison. March 7-8, 2018.

Professional Memberships

  • American Society for Theatre Research
  • Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades
  • Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
  • Latin American Studies Association