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Education
PhD, University of Kansas
MA, University of Kansas
BA, University of California
Research Interests
Indigenous textual production in colonial Mexico and Peru; processes of accommodation, negotiation, and resistance, with attention to the Nahuas and Andean peoples
Publications
Book
Nahua Horizons: Writing, Persuasion, and Future Paths in Colonial Mexico. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 2025.
Journal Articles
“Practices of Resilience: Online Nahuatl and Nahua Cultural Initiatives in Los Angels and Mexico City During Covid-19” Journal of Transnational American Studies. Status Aug. 2025: Accepted
“Riding the Hyper-Lizard: Indigenous Futurities in a Huastecan Maize Deity Narrative.” Preservation, Research and Education, Status Aug. 2025: Accepted.
“Bribes, Refusals, and a Grammar of Exploitation in También la lluvia and La carga.” Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World. 11.1 (2023): 136-157.
“Where No One Will See: Spanish Legend, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Cantares de Dzitbalché.” The Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (MIFLC) Review. 20.1 (2020): 95-124.
“Between the Glosses: Devils and Pantheism in the Crónica mexicayotl.” The Latinamericanist. 61.2 (2017): 247-272.
Peer-Reviewed Chapters
“Entre nos: Comparison and Authority in the Epistolary of Antonio Valeriano.” Eleonora Roland, Angelika Epple, Antje Flüchter, Kirsten Kramer, eds., Contact, Conquest, and Colonization: How Practices of Comparison Shaped Empires and Colonialism around the World (Studies in Cultural History), Routledge, 2021, 87-109.
“Voices of the altepetl: Nahua epistemologies and resistance in Los anales de Juan Bautista.” Coloniality, Religion, and the Law in the Early Iberian World. Eds. Santa Arias and Raúl Marrero-Fente. Hispanic Issues Series, Vanderbilt University Press, 2013, 51-69.