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Associate Professor Spanish American Literature
Department of Foreign
Languages and Literatures
College
of Letters and Sciences
800 Algoma Boulevard, Oshkosh, WI 54901-8693
Phone: (920) 424 - 7293; Fax: (920) 424 - 7289
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Field of Research: Colonial Latin American
Studies
I am interested in the
relationship between Mesoamerican cultural Indigenous heterogeneity and
colonial transculturation in the chronicles of Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc.
Current Book Project
El nahuatlato
Don Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc: Archivos y
memoria en la Nueva España. (The Nahuatlato Don Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc:
Archives and Memory in New Spain). In this work I highlight the
historical context of sixteenth-century New Spain to shed light on the
complexities of indigenous historical narrative production. By studying
a wide variety of documents such as letters, land tenure disputes and
historical narratives of indigenous writers, as well as pre-Hispanic material
culture and historical registers, I examine Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc’s Crónica mexicana and Crónica mexicayotl, written in Spanish and Nahuatl
respectively. On the one hand, his texts exemplify the implementation
of autochthonous cultural survival practices engendered by the colonial
situation at both an individual and corporate level; on the other, they
reveal the organization of indigenous historical registers and memory which can
be traced in land tenure documents as late as the eighteenth century.
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