Speaker
Affiliation
Associate Professor of Literature, UC San Diego
Details

Event Description
A Workshop with Gloria Chacon
Research Areas
Indigenous literatures of the Americas; [email protected]/[email protected] literary and cultural movements; Central American poetics and politics; U.S. Central Americans; Latin American literary and cultural theories.
Selected Publications
- “Poetisas Mayas: subjetividades contra la corriente.” In Cuadernos de Literatura 11 (22) enero-junio 2007 (94-106).
- “Escritores Mayas contemporáneos: redefiniendo nociones de tradición y autoría” Diversidad y diálogo intercultural a través de las literaturas en lenguas Mexicanas. ELIAC: D.F., Mexico, 2007.
- La Sihuanaba. Entry in Celebrating Latino Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Cultural Traditions. Edited by Maria Herrera-Sobek. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO LLC, 2012.
- El Salvador and its Folklore. Entry in Celebrating Latino Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Cultural Traditions. Edited by Maria Herrera-Sobek. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO LLC, 2012.
- De las Casas, Fray Bartolomé. Biographical entry, Native Peoples of the World. Forthcoming 2013.
- Maya. Encyclopedia entry, Native Peoples of the World. Forthcoming 2013.
- “Cuerpo y Poesía: transgresiones culturales en el trabajo de mujeres mayas.” Cartografías culturales del género en Centroamérica: saberes, imágenes e itinerarios. Eds. Alexandra Ortiz Wallner and Mónica Albizúrez Gil. Berlin: Walter Frei. Forthcoming, 2013.
- “Entre lo sagrado y lo profano: poetas indígenas con mirada de mujer.” Poetas Mexicanas del siglo xx.Ed. Iliana Rodriguez Zuleta. Mexico: UNAM forthcoming 2013.
Sponsors
- PAIISWG
- Program in American Studies
- Department of Comparative Literature
- Department of Spanish and Portuguese
- Program in Latin American Studies