Jose Moctezuma

Jose-Luis Moctezuma (he/him) is a Xicano poet, essayist, and researcher. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Chicago. His poetry and criticism have been published (or are forthcoming) in Postmodern Culture, Peripheries, Modernism/modernity, Fence, Jacket2, Chicago Review, and elsewhere. His chapbook, "Spring Tlaloc Seance," was published by Projective Industries in January 2016. His first full-length book, "Place-Discipline," was published by Omnidawn in October 2018. "Place-Discipline" was selected by Myung Mi Kim as the winner of the 2017 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize. His second book, "Black Box Syndrome," was published by Omnidawn in December 2023.

I teach and specialize in poetry and poetics, and the history of lyric. My research lies at the intersection of anglophone modernism, the poetics of automatism, avant-garde politics, and visual cultures. My dissertation, “Spiritual Automata: Craft, Reproduction, and Violence, 1850-1930,” explores the impact which late nineteenth-century industrial culture, machine practices, and psychoanalysis had on the anglophone avant-garde in the early twentieth-century. I also teach and specialize in Chicano/Xicano poetry, U.S. American Latinx/e literature, and Latin American literature.