Full Name
Emmanuel Ortega
Speaker Bio
Emmanuel Ortega is the Marilynn Thoma Scholar in Art of the Spanish Americas at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ortega specializes in the topics of sentimentality as it pertains to nineteenth-century Mexico, and Novohispanic Franciscans portraiture. Ortega is co-producer of the educational YouTube channel Unsettling Journeys. An essay titled The Mexican Picturesque and the Sentimental Nation: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Landscape is forthcoming in the June 2021 issue of The Art Bulletin.
Emmanuel Ortega