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| Nestor I. Quiroa |
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Assistant Professor of Spanish
On faculty since 2002
Phone: (630)752-5796
E-mail: Nestor.I.Quiroa@wheaton.edu
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| Education |
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Ph.D., Latin American Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.
M.A., Spanish Literature, Michigan State University, 1994.
Translation/Interpretation Certification, University of California, Los Angeles, 1992.
B.A., Spanish Literature and Bilingual Education, University of California, Irvine, 1990.
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Professional and Personal Interests
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| Courses
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SPAN 337 Survey of Latin American Literature, 1492-present
SPAN 331 Spanish Conversation and Culture
SPAN 439 Latino Cultures in the United States
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Membership in Professional Societies |
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
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Research |
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Complexities of the religious conversion process of the Maya people by the Dominican order during the colonial period
Oral and written traditions in Colonial texts
Subversive discourses: Indian and Mestizo texts (México, Guatemala, Perú)
Hybrid texts: Race, language and religions in Colonial Latin America
Indian representation in contemporary Latin American literature
“Indigenist” novel in Latin America
Indigenous manuscripts of highland Guatemala: The “Títulos” a New Genre
The Dominican spiritual conquest of Guatemala
Colonial Guatemala in the Spanish Chronicles
Ecclesiastic colonial manuscripts in the Maya-Quiché language
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Publications:
“Francisco Ximénez and the Popol Vuh: Text, Structure, and Ideology in a Prologue,” CLAHR: Colonial Latin American Historical Review 11:3 (2002): 279-300.
The Popol Vuh and the Dominican Religious Extirpation in Highland Guatemala: Re-contextualizing Friar Ximénez’s Text, Prologues and Annotations (submitted for publication, 2007)
Papers:
2004, “Defiance and Manipulation of Colonial Discourse in Highland Guatemala,” paper to be presented in a session titled “Colonial Discourse and the Reinvention of Identity, History, and Religion in Early American Texts” at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) annual conference in October 2004.
2001, “Claiming Power Through Narration: The Título de Totonicapán and the Maya Quiché under the Colonial system,” paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) annual conference.
2001, “Subversive Discourse and The Título de Totonicapán: The ‘Quicheization' of Christianity in Highland Guatemala,” paper presented at North Carolina Annual Conference on Romance Languages & Literatures.
2000, “The Popol Vuh and Dominican Friar Francisco Ximénez: Transcribing a Religious Encounter,“ paper presented at The Twentieth Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages & Literatures.
2000, “Cosmology as Cosmogony in Indigenous Colonial Latin American Narratives,” paper presented at Central States Anthropological Society 77th Annual Meeting.
2000, “Texts and Contexts in Highland Guatemala: The Spiritual Conquest of the Maya-Quiché,” paper presented at Latin American Studies Association (LASA) annual conference.
1999, “Religion, Law and the Indigenous Manuscript of Highland Guatemala,” paper presented at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference
1999, “The Popol Vuh in Context: The Intentions of a Manuscript,” paper presented at the Ohio Academy of History.
1999, “Indigenous Texts of Highland Guatemala: A reflection of Dominican methodology for Christianization,” paper presented at the Central States Anthropological Society Conference.1998, “The Popol Vuh and the Dominican Francisco Ximénez,” paper presented at the Spanish, Italian and Portuguese student colloquium.
1998, “The Popol Vuh as a Conflict of Communities in Highland Guatemala, paper presented at the American Society for Ethnohistory.Future Articles for Publication:
Claiming Power Through Narration: The Título de Totonicapán and the Maya-Quiché Colonial Legal System (Latin American Research Review).
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