Profile
Omar Durán-García is a graduate student in Latin American and Iberian Cultures and the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia University. His interests include corporeality and materiality in modern and contemporary Latin America, visual cultures, medical and health humanities, and queer archives.
He holds a BA in Art History, Spanish Studies, and Latin American and Iberian Studies from the University of Delaware, a MA and MPhil in Hispanic Cultural Studies from Columbia University.
He is currently writing a dissertation titled “Visual Misdiagnoses: Homosexualities, Biomedicine, and Visual Cultures in Mexico, 1953-2019” which examines the relationship between visuality, visual cultures, and biomedical technologies in the negotiations of homosexuality in modern and contemporary Mexico.
