EDUCATION

1998 Ph.D. in Colonial Spanish American Literature, minor in History,

Dissertation: “Estrategias narrativas en el discurso de la Crónica mexicana y la Crónica mexicayotl de Hernando Alvarado Tezozomoc”

Major Profesor: Margarita Zamora, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1991 M.A, Spanish Language and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1989 B.A, Spanish Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison

OTHER EDUCATION

1999 Intensive language training in classical and modern Nahuatl, Nahuatl Summer Language Institute, Yale University

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

Fall 2005 Minority Faculty Research Award. Institute of Race and Ethnicity, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Summer 2005 Faculty Development Program Grant, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh

Summer 2004 Small Faculty Development Grant, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh

1996-1997 Advanced Opportunity Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1994-1995 NAVE Internship Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1993-1994 Advanced Opportunity Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2003-Present Assistant Professor of Colonial Spanish American Literature, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.

1998-2003 Assistant Professor of Colonial Spanish American Literature, Washington University,

St. Louis, MO

1996-1997 Instructor, Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI

1995-1996 Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1989-1994 Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Summer 1990 Program Assistant to Professor Lucía Garner, Intensive Spanish Methodology

for High School Teachers Program, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

TEACHING INTERESTS

Latin American literature--Colonial and Modern Periods

Amerindian Literatures (Indigenismo)

Language for Professions, Conversation, Composition, and Translation

COURSES TAUGHT

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-Oshkosh

Spanish 204, Intermediate Grammar and Composition

Spanish 301, Advanced Composition and Conversation I

Spanish 320, Survey of Latin American Literature I

Spanish 334, Latin American Culture and Civilization

Spanish 335, Mexican Civilization

Spanish 364, “Writing and Invention in the Latin American Colonies”

Spanish 420, Latin American Short Story

Spanish 364 “Painting the Conquest and the Colony in Textual an Visual Representations”

Spanish 364 “Wonderlands in Colonial Texts”

Spanish 364 "Transatlantic Colonial Images"

Syllabi available at:http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/cortes/

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY-St. Louis 1998-2003

Spanish Level III

Beginning conversation.

Grammar and Composition I-II

Spanish American Literature I

Panorama histórico del siglo XVIII (graduate/undergraduate survey)

Cultural heterogeneity? Transculturation? Hybridity? What is all that Anyway? (Graduate Seminar)

Absolutely Fabulous? Fable and History in Colonial Latin American Narrative

Reflections and Wonders in Colonial Texts (Undergraduate Seminar)

Visual and Textual Representations in Colonial Latin America (Undergraduate Seminar)

Captivity and Its Consequences: Horror, Desire and Nostalgia in Colonial Narratives Spanish (graduate/undergraduate special topics course)

Syllabi available at: http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/cortes/courses/Courses.html

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2004-2005 Faculty Leader of the Study Abroad Program in Cuernavaca, Mexico, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.

1999-2000 University College Coordinator (planning of French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian course offerings, advertising of teaching positions, and selection of instructors) for the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Washington University, St. Louis MO

May/Jul 96 Director of the Summer Study Abroad Program in Oaxaca, Mexico, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1994-1995 Research Assistant for Professor Margarita Zamora, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1993-1994 Translator for the Pain Research Group, Collaborator with the World Health Organization, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Spring 1993 Professional Recording for the Spanish Placement Test Listening Comprehension Examination, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1991-1992 Research Assistant for Professor Peter Boyd-Bowman, Lexicographic compilation for an index of Latin American Spanish, XX century, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1988-1989 Bibliographical Research, Seminary of Medieval Spanish Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

PUBLICATIONS

ARTICLES

· “The Colegio de Tlatelolco: Nahua Intellectuals and the Spiritual Conquest of Mexico” for The Blackwell Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture. Ed. Sara Castro-Klarén. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2008. 86-105. (By invitation).

“Motecuzoma/Huémac y Quetzalcóatl/Cortés: referencia mítica sobre el fin del imperio mexica en la Crónica mexicana de don Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc” Hofstra Hispanic Review 3 Fall (2006) 26-40.

· El nahuatlato Alvarado y su historia en el Tlalamatl Huauhquilpan y en la “genealogía de doña Francisca de Guzmán”: Mecanismos de la memoria colectiva indígena”. Colonial Americas Studies Organization. Colonial Americas: First International Interdisciplinary Symposium. Georgetown University. Washington, D.C., October, 2003.

· “Los capítulos perdidos en la Crónica mexicana de Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc.” Colonial Latin American Review 12.2 (2003): 149-167.

· “¿Dónde está Tlaloc? El Templo Mayor mexica: edificación real y simbólica del imperio en fuentes escritas y materiales.” Modern Languages Notes (Hispanic Issue) 18.2 (2003): 341-362.

· “Visiones y revisiones de la historia prehispánica: la mexicayotl criolla en la Historia Antigua de Francisco Javier Clavijero y en la Descripción de las dos piedras de Antonio León y Gama.” Nuestras Américas: Crítica intercultural del nuevo siglo. Ed. Julio Ortega. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2003.

· “Demystifying Sacred Geographical Spaces in Two Chapters of the Crónica mexicana. Mapping Colonial Spanish America: Places and Commonplaces of Experience, Culture, and Identity. Eds. Santa Arias and Mariselle Meléndez. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2002. 68-83.

· “Los estudios coloniales hispanoamericanos: reconsideraciones y aperturas.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. 35.3 (2001): 577-584.

· “La mexicayotl jesuita: una construcción criollista en la obra de Francisco Javier Clavijero.” La literatura Iberoamericana en el 2000. Balances, perspectivas y prospectivas. Salamanca, España: Universidad de Salamanca, 2001. 668-686.

· “Reacciones indígenas a la nueva era cristiano/colonial: reinterpretación histórica en la Crónica mexicayotl de Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc y movimientos mesiánicos.” Silabario 3 (2000): 81-89.

· “La apropiación y recodificación del discurso colonial en la Crónica mexicana y en la Crónica mexicayotl de Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc.” Cuestiones culturales 13.3 (2000): 11-16.

· “Reflexiones: ¿Para qué sirve el estudio de las humanidades en la preparatoria y en las carreras científicas?” Duc in Altum (Irapuato Gto, Mexico) 3 (2004): 6-9. (By invitation).

BOOK REVIEW

· Velazco, Salvador. Visiones de Anahuac. Reconstrucciones historiográficas y entnicidades emergentes en el México colonial: Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl, Diego Muñoz Camargo y Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc. Guadalajara, Jalisco, México: Universidad de Guadalajara, 2003. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. 38.2 (2004): 393-395.

TRANSLATION

· “Discovery and Gender” by Margarita Zamora. Breve historia feminista de la literatura española II. Ed. Iris Zavala. Madrid: Antropos, 1995. 101-126.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY

“Alvarado Tezozomoc, Don Hernando” Encyclopedia of Latin America History and Culture. Second Edition. Vol 1. A-B. Editor in Chief: Jay Kinsbruner. Senior Editor Erick D. Langer. Gale Cengage Learning, 2008. 130-131.

BOOK SUBMITTED

“El ‘nahuatlato alvarado’ y el Tlalamtl Huau[h]quilpa[n]: Mecanismos de la memoria colectiva de una comunidad indígena.” Colonial Spanish Series of the Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies. A critical analysis of the Tlalamtl Huau[h]quilpa[n] and a facsimil edition.

BOOK IN PROGRESS

Proyecciones y reflexiones mexica-tenochca en la colonia: El caso de don Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc

This project is the first complete study of Don Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc’s production. I analyze his diachronic and synchronic contribution as history in a study informed by an interdisciplinary methodological approach, as well as, extensive research of overlooked primary sources. I look at Tezozomoc’s texts (in Spanish and Nahualt) as products of an agency that indigenous people, such as himself and other of his contemporaries, exerted in the emerging new colonial culture in order to provide a record of indigenous collective memory. With a background set on the intellectual history of indigenous research during the sixteenth and seventeenth century in New Spain, my book brings together how the content, intended audience and delivery of Tezozomoc’s two chronicles, and other documents, give us a better understanding of indigenous historical consciousness.

ARTICLES IN PROGRESS

· “A través del cristal: fragmentaciones implícitas en la reescritura de la historia mexica.”

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

“Expresiones nahuas de los siglo XVI y XVII: Acercamientos pedagógicos interdisciplinarios” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures Madison, WI October, 2007.

Panel Organizer “The Power of the Archives: Memories and Identities in Nahua Histories” Latin American Studies Association XXVII Internacional Congress, Montreal, Canada, September, 2007.

“Disputas de la memoria: El archivo como poder de autoridad nahua en la Nueva España de los siglos XVI y XVII” Latin American Studies Association XXVII Internacional Congress, Montreal, Canada, September, 2007.

“El Colegio de Tlatelolco y su legado: Intercambio intelectual en la producción de una historiografía nahua/mexicana” VII Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana (JALLA), Bogota, Colombia, August 14-18, 2006.

· “Acercamiento a la enseñanza de las crónicas indígenas coloniales siglos XVI y XVII: Intersecciones, yuxtaposiciones y divergencias” Latin American Studies Association XXVI Internacional Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March, 2006.

· Session organizer, “Proyecciones y relaciones de la memoria mexica en la colonia: El caso de don Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc”, Latin American Studies Association, XXV Internacional Congress, Las Vegas, NV, October, 2004.

· “Memoria mexica, política y colonia: La Crónica mexicana y la Crónica mexicayotl de don Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc” Latin American Studies Association, XXV Internacional Congress, Las Vegas, NV., October, 2004.

· “El nahuatlato Alvarado y el Tlalamatl Huauhquilpan: Mecanismos de la memoria de una comunidad indígena.” Colonial Americas Studies Organization. First International Interdisciplinary Symposium. Georgetown University. Washington, D.C., October, 2003.

· “Intersecciones, yuxtaposiciones y divergencias: discursos coloniales y teorías poscoloniales,” Latin American Studies Association, XXIV International Congress. Dallas, TX, March, 2003.

· Session leader and participant, “Formación y asentamiento colonial en la Nueva España: (Re)presentaciones míticas y reescritura; “La escritura como coherencia de la historia: mitos y apelaciones jurídicas en textos indígenas del siglo XVI,” Modern Languages Association Convention, New York, NY, December, 2002.

· Chair, Andean re-visions of Spanish American Colonial Societies, Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures St. Louis, MO, September, 2002.

· “Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc y el llamado Tlalamatl Huauhquilpan: Falsificación y estrategia de reclamo,” Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI), Iowa City, Iowa, July, 2002.

· “Visiones y revisiones de la historia prehispánica: la mexicayotl criolla en la Historia Antigua de Francisco Javier Clavigero y en la Descripción de las dos piedras de Antonio León y Gama,” Carlos Fuentes, México y temas trasantlánticos, Brown University, Providence, RI, April, 2002.

· “El Templo Mayor mexica: edificación real y simbólica del imperio en la Crónica mexicana de Alvarado Tezozomoc,” Latin American Studies Association, XXIII International Congress, Washington, D.C., September, 2001.

· “Registros de la memoria mexica: conflicto de la escritura en las obras de Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc,” Jornadas Metropolitanas de Estudios Culturales, Mexico City, July, 2001.

· “Neo-aztequismo y nacionalidad en la producción criolla mexicana,” Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, September, 2000.

· “La Mexicayotl Jesuita: Una nueva historiografia del exilio en la obra de Francisco Javier Clavijero,” Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI), Salamanca, Spain, June, 2000.

· “¿Una nueva Jerusalem indígena? Paradigma implícito de un nuevo principio mesiánico en la Crónica mexicayotl,” Latin American Studies Association, XXII International Congress, Miami, FL, March, 2000.

· Chair, “Infanticide in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture”, Projects and Projectors: Inventions of the Enlightenment, University of New Hampshire-Durham, December, 1999.

· “Jesuit Mexicayotl: A Nostalgic Construction of Criollismo,” Inventions of the Enlightenment, University of New Hampshire-Durham, December, 1999.

· “Discurso heterogéneo en la narrativa de Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc,” Latin American Studies Association, XXI International Congress, Chicago IL, September, 1998.

· “El papel de la crónica indígena en la formación de una identidad mestiza en el México de los siglos XVI y XVII,” El nacimiento de dos naturalezas: Lo criollo y lo mestizo en Latinoamérica, Universidad de Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, March, 1996.

· “Estrategias discursivas en la Crónica mexicana de Hernando Alvarado Tezozomoc,” Latin American Studies Association, XIX International Congress, Washington D.C., September, 1995.

INVITED LECTURES

· “Native and Mestizo Intelligentsia in Sixteenth Century New Spain,” University of Wisconsin-Madison. Sponsored by UW-Madison Spanish and Portuguese Department and the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program, April 2006.

· “Interdisciplinary Research in Colonial Latin American Studies: Mechanisms of Indigenous Collective Memory in Sixteenth Century New Spain,” Dean´s Symposium, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, December 2004.

· “Reflexiones: ¿Para qué sirve el estudio de las humanidades en la preparatoria y en las carreras científicas?” Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, August, 2003.

DISSERTATIONS COMMITTEES, WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

(Member)

Jan 1999 Alvaro Kaempfer, “Texto, construcción autorial y fundación nacional: las declaraciones de independencia de Argentina, Brasil y Chile”