Prof. Voigt joined the faculty in 2000, after earning her Ph.D. from Brown University. She is the 2005-2006 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, which she was awarded to revise her book manuscript, Writing Captivity in the Iberian Empires: Transatlantic Transformations. Her teaching and research on colonial Latin American literature and culture address transatlantic and comparative issues, and include such topics as captivity and shipwreck narratives in the Spanish and Portuguese empires, mestizo historiography in New Spain, and Baroque festivals and creole identity in the Andes and Brazil. She has published on these and other topics in recent and forthcoming issues of Colonial Latin American Review, Early American Literature, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos and Romance Notes.