Research Interests
Early Modern Spanish and colonial and contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies; Border Studies; Visual Culture; Museum Studies; Philosophy; Multiliteracies and post-CLT pedagogies and approaches to the teaching of Spanish at all levels
Research In Area of specialization
My areas of research specialization are Early Modern Spanish and Colonial Latin American literature, history, and culture, with particular focus on early modern theories of war, state violence, masculinity, and surveillance. I have published articles on those subjects in numerous journals, including Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Hispanic Review, The Sixteenth Century Journal, and Bulletin of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies.
CURRENT projectS
My current work on contemporary issues in Latin America—which I understand as ongoing colonial processes—builds on my knowledge of colonial Latin America and early modern Spain. I am currently working on a book project titled Thinking, Caring, and Doing in Precarious Times, which engages with a question of the capacity to think, care, and act under authoritarian regimes and extractive capitalism in the Americas.
As a language‐pedagogy specialist, I develop innovative courses to build multiple literacies. My current focus is a project‑based learning program at Yale’s Peabody Museum.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
“The Social Spaces of Surveillance in Early Modern Spanish Military Architecture.” Spanish Journal of Cultural Studies. 21.2 (2020): 149-169
“Deploying the Classics: Military Humanism and Social Mobility in Spanish Military Manuals.” The Sixteenth Century Journal. 46.3 (2015): 603-623
“Early Modern Expressions of Nationhood in French and Dutch Translations of Bartolomé de Las Casas’ Brevísima relación.” Traversea. 4 (2014): 34-41 (N. Faber, student co-author)
“Masculinity, War, and Pursuit of Glory in Sepúlveda’s Gonzalo.” Hispanic Review. 80.3 (2012): 391-412
“Contesting the Word: The Crown and the Printing Press in Colonial Spanish America.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies. 89.4 (2012): 575-596. (Special Issue: Exploring the Print World of Early-Modern Iberia, ed. Alexander S. Wilkinson)
“Contesting the Word: The Crown and the Printing Press in Colonial Spanish America.” Bulletin of Spanish Studies. 89.4 (2012): 575-596. (Special Issue: Exploring the Print World of Early-Modern Iberia, ed. Alexander S. Wilkinson)
“Myth and Prophecy in Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda’s Crusading ‘Exhortación.’” Bulletin of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies. 35.1 (12/2010): 48-68
“(En)gendering Ethnicity: The Economy of Female Virginity in Guatemala,” in Radical Philosophy Review 2.2: 1999
Invited Articles
“Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda,” in Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation. Ed. Margaret King, New York: Oxford University Press, 09/2016
“Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda,” in Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation. Ed. Margaret King, New York: Oxford University Press, 09/2016
Invited Book Review
Los De fato et libero arbitrio libri tres de Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Joaquín J. Sánchez Gázquez. Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique 3-4: 2016
Los De fato et libero arbitrio libri tres de Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Joaquín J. Sánchez Gázquez. Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique 3-4: 2016
Book Chapter
“(En)gendering Ethnicity: The Economy of Female Virginity in Guatemala,” Philosophy and Everyday Life. Ed. Laura Duhan Kaplan. New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2002
“(En)gendering Ethnicity: The Economy of Female Virginity in Guatemala,” Philosophy and Everyday Life. Ed. Laura Duhan Kaplan. New York: Seven Bridges Press, 2002
Online Publications
“Response to Friendship, Kinship, and the Law - in the Mediterranean.” Iberian Connections 7, no.3 (2021): https://iberian-connections.yale.edu/articles/response-najera/
“Response to Friendship, Kinship, and the Law - in the Mediterranean.” Iberian Connections 7, no.3 (2021): https://iberian-connections.yale.edu/articles/response-najera/
“Gilles Deleuze: Coldness and Cruelty.” Iberian Connections, Workshop. https://iberian-connections.yale.edu/workshop/gilles-deleuze/