Winter Heller Salon with UCCS Professor Fernando Feliu-Moggi

FERNANDO FELIU-MOGGI, Ph.D.
Chair of the UCCS Department of Languages and Cultures
Professor of Spanish

THE CHIEF & THE GOVERNOR: Material Culture & Comanche/Spanish Diplomacy in Late 18th Century New Mexico

Influenced by changing geopolitical dynamics in the region, the peace treaty accorded in Santa Fe by the Spanish and Eastern Comanche in 1786 culminated more than two decades of violent confrontation between the two groups.

Objects from this period associated with both cultures illustrate how these transformations affected the way the two populations reimagined their social and political relationship.

Fernando Feliu-Moggi is Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Languages and Cultures at UCCS.

He earned a PhD in Hispanic Literatures and Cultural Studies from the University of Pittsburgh in 2004. He has published extensively on Latin American literature and contemporary art and film. As an editor and translator he collaborates regularly with museums and visual arts institutions in the United States, Latin America, and Europe where he has worked on more than 30 exhibition catalogs for, among others, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; the San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art; Los Angeles; Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; LA Plaza de la Cultura y Artes, Los Angeles; the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures; the New Museum, New York; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; and the National Library in Guatemala.

He has held visiting professorships at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, and Bowdoin College, Maine, and taught at the Unversidad de Costa Rica and Universidad Rafael Landivar, Universidad Francisco Marroquín, and Universidad de San Carlos in Guatemala. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and of the Center for Research Frontiers in Digital Humanities at UCCS.

He has been at UCCS since 2002.

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