Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Toronto (2004)
M.A. University of Western Ontario (1994)
B.A. (Honours), University of Western Ontario (1991)
Research areas
- Cultural identity in early modern Spain and colonial Latin America; mestizos and racialization discourses in early colonial Peru.
- Early modern book history in Spain and Spanish America; relationship of state bureaucracy and cultural production; literary censorship
Articles and Book Chapters
“Historia editorial, censura y difusión del Lazarillo de Tormes en los albores del siglo XVII,” Memorias de un honrado aguador. Ámbitos de estudio en torno a la difusión de Lazarillo de Tormes, ed. Frederick A. de Armas & Julio Vélez-Sainz. Madrid: Sial, 2017. 69-82.
“Prudent Deferment: Cosmographer-Chronicler Juan López de Velasco and the Historiography of the Indies.” The Americas. A Quarterly Review of Latin American History 74.1 (2017): 27-55.
“Language, Genealogy, and Archive: Fashioning the Indigenous Mother in the Comentarios reales and in Sixteenth-Century Mestizo Petitions.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 41.1 (2016): 35-64.
Books
Pícaro and Cortesano: Identity and the Forms of Capital in Early Modern Spanish Picaresque Narrative and Courtesy Literature. Lewisburg, PA.: Bucknell University Press, 2011. 167 pp.
“Juan López de Velasco: el censor censurado y la historiografía de Indias.” Paper delivered at the XI Congreso de la Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro, Madrid, Spain, July 10-14, 2017.
“La madre indígena y el archivo historiográfico: lengua e identidad en peticiones de mestizos en el siglo XVI.” Paper delivered at the Latin American Studies Association Conference, Lima, Peru, May 23-26, 2017.
“Mestizo Petitions, Narratives of Justice and the Notarial Record in Sixteenth-Century Colonial Peru.” Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 27-30, 2015.
- SPAN 1F00 Introductory Spanish
- MARS 1F90 Medieval and Renaissance Civilizations
- SCLC 1F90 Cultures of Western Europe
- SPAN 1P95 Conquest and Colonization
- SPAN 2P10 Latin American Cultures Since Independence
- SPAN 2P20 Analysis and Approaches to Literary Texts
- SPAN 3P97 Modern Spanish Literature and Culture
- SPAN 3P98 Contemporary Chronicle & Testimonial Writing
- SPAN 3Q90 Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture
- SPAN 4P15 Imagining Identity in the Early Modern Hispanic World
New Course – Fall 2017: MARS/SPAN 3Q92 Moors, New Christians, and Renegades
