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Gloria Chacon

Associate Professor

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Gloria E. Chacón earned her PhD in the Literature Department at the University of California Santa Cruz. Chacón regularly teaches courses on Contemporary Indigenous literatures from abiayala, late twentieth century Latin American literature, Central American literature, Chicanx/Latinx literatures, and Latin American literatures in translation. Chacón’s research explores questions around national canons, literary theory, and indigenous cultural productions in Latin America/Abiayala.

Pronouns: she, her

Languages: Spanish, English

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Articles & Book Chapters

  • "Emiliano Monge's Las tierras arrasadas: Transmigration and Dehumanization in the South-South." Aztlán, Vol 48, 2, F 2023, 161-178.
  • “Humberto Ak’abal: Indigeneity, Translation, and World Literature” in Central American Literatures as World Literature, Bloomsbury, 2023.
  • “Zapotec Literature” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, 2022.
  • “Transatlantic Routing and Rooting in Quince Duncan’s Kimbo” in Writing the Afro-Américas: Literary Interventions from Mexico to the Southern Cone, Vanderbilt University Press, 2022.
  • “Nunca hemos sido humanos: una mirada desde dos fundadores de la literatura zapoteca.” Eds. Paola Molano, Miguel Rocha Vivas, Miguel Rojas Sotelo. Mingas de la imagen: estudios ecocritícos e interculturales, Universidad Pontífica Javeriana, 2022.
  • “Exploring Reparations in Mesoamerica” in Wall to Wall Spaces of Law in Latin American and Spanish Contexts. Ed. Carlos Varon et al.,Vernon Press, (2021) 81-94.
  • “Material culture, Indigeneity, and Temporality: The textile as Legal Subject.” Textual Cultures, (2020).
  • “El bilenguaje, la auto-traducción, y los escritores indígenas,” Caleidoscopio verbal: lenguas y literaturas originarias. Eds. Osiris A. Gómez, Sara Poot Herrera, Francisco A. Lomelí. Oro de la noche Ediciones, 2020: pp.109-115
  • “El nacimiento de la novela indígena y el rechazo a la integración eurocéntrica.” Revista de critica literaria latinoamericana. Año XLVI, no 91, 2020, 39-58.
  • “La vejez como sabiduría en la novela indígena.” Envejecimiento y vejez en la literatura latinoamericana y caribeña. Ed. Aída Díaz-Tendero Bollain. España/Mexico: 2019.
  • “Indian Trouble.” In a special issue dedicated to Latino/a Studies for Cultural Dynamics, Vol. 31, 1-2 (2019), pp.50-61.
    12.“The Assembling of Trans-Indigènitude Through International Circuits of Poetry.” Eds. Nina Morgan, The Routledge Companion to International American Studies, Routledge, 2019.
  • “Metamestizaje and the Narration of Political Movements from the South.” Latino Studies, Vol.15. 2
    (2017):1-19.
  • “Cultivating Nichimal K’op (Poetry) from the Heart: Indigenous Women of Chiapas.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos ,Vol. 39.1 (2014): 165-180.
  • “Cuerpo y poesía: transgresiones culturales en el trabajo de mujeres mayas.” Poéticas y políticas de género. Ensayos sobre imaginarios, literaturas y medios en centroamerica. Eds. Alexandra Ortiz Wallner and Mónica Albizúrez Gil. Berlin: Walter Frei, 2013.
  • “Escritores Mayas contemporáneos: redefiniendo nociones de tradición y autoría.” Diversidad y diálogo intercultural a través de las literaturas en lenguas mexicanas. Mexico, D.F.: ELIAC, 2007.
  • Ph.D. in Literature, Latin and Latin American Studies parenthetical, 2006
  • M.A. in Literature, Indigenous Literatures of Latin America, 2003
  • B.A. in Latin American and Latinx Literature, Hampshire College, 1994