Rocío Cortés

Degrees

• Ph D University of Wisconsin-Madison
• MA University of Wisconsin-Madison
• BA University of Wisconsin-Madison

Teaching and Research Interests

My research embraces a diversity of theoretical approaches from cultural studies, literary, and linguistic methods to those that draw on the social sciences for the study of indigenous chronicles of sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Mexico. I am currently working on a book project entitled Proyecciones y reflexiones mexica-tenochca en la colonia: El caso de Hernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc. (Mexica-Tenochca Projections and Reflections in the Colonial Period: The Case of Hernando de Alvardo Tezozomoc). In this work I situate Tezozomoc’s writings in their historical context, taking into account power relations in a colonial situation. See more in my web page Homepage for Dr. Cortés

Recent Courses

049-204 Intermediate Reading

049-301 Advanced Composition and Conversation

049-320 Survey of Latin American Literature I

049-335 Mexican Civilization

049-334 Latin American Civilization

049-364 Special Topic Courses:

• Writing and Invention in Latin American Colonies
• Painting the Conquest and the Colony in Textual and Visual Representations 
• Wonderlands in Colonial Texts
• Transatlantic Colonial Images

049-420 Latin American Short Story