Joshua Lund

Biography

Joshua Lund is Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches literature, film, and cultural history. His courses include Fút(e)bol: A Cultural History, which explores soccer through literature, journalism, scholarship, and film. His books include Werner Herzog: American Nomadic (2020), The Mestizo State: Writing Race in Modern Mexico (2012; Spanish translation, El estado mestizo, 2017), and The Impure Imagination (2006). His current work explores the idea of work, the aesthetics of political violence, transnational film, and the links between capitalist expansion and narrative in Latin America. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. from Gustavus Adolphus College.