Ernesto Ortiz-Diaz teaches Portuguese classes and classes on Latin America, focusing
on Brazil. His interests include cartography, Brazilian and Latin American music,
history, opera, mythology, and dead languages (especially Latin.) Originally from
Monclova, Mexico, he earned his BA in Spanish from the Instituto Tecnológico y de
Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in 2002 and his MA in Spanish from the University of
Colorado, Boulder in 2005. He received his PhD in 2011 in Latin American Literatures and
Cultures, Designated Emphasis in Classics and Classical Receptions from the University of
California, Davis, where he is completed his dissertation, The Portrait of Nature in
Latin American Literature: From Aesthetic Idealization to the Critical Landscapein June
2011.
Ortiz-Diaz has been teaching at Macalester since 2011.
EDUCATION: BA: Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey; MA:
University of Colorado, Boulder; PhD: University of California, Davis
