Ignacio Carvajal

Ignacio Carvajal (he/they) is a scholar, poet and translator who serves as Assistant Professor in the Literature Department and as affiliated faculty in Latin American Studies and Chicanx/Latinx Studies at UCSD. Their research interests include Indigenous responses to colonialism and evangelization during the early colonial period; pedagogical approaches to Indigenous language learning (especially K’iche’); Central American literatures and cultures; poetry; and translation.

Pronouns: he/they

Languages: English, Spanish, K’iche’

Books

• (In Preparation) Ri Utz’ib’axik ri ch’akatajik/Written Conquest: Reducción and Territory in the Highlands of Guatemala
• allow – a litany. La Resistencia Press, 2021.
• Plegarias. El Suri Porfiado Ediciones; University of Houston & Casa Cultural de las Américas. 2019. 1st Place, Poetic Bridges Continental Contest.

Articles & Book Chapters

• Carvajal Regidor, Ignacio, María Paz Carvajal Regidor, Marta Elena Carvajal Regidor, Mónica Carvajal Regidor. “Many Central America(n)s: Language, Culture, and Pedagogical Approaches through the films Ixcanul (Guatemala 2015) and El Regreso (Costa Rica 2012).” in Teaching Central American Literature in a Global Context, Edited by Gloria Chacón and Mónica Albizures. The Modern Language Association of America, 2022, p. 101-111.
• Carvajal Regidor, Ignacio. “From Ajawarem to Jurisdicción: Establishing Authority over People and Territory in the Highlands of Guatemala During the Sixteenth Century.” The Latin Americanist, vol. 65, no. 3, 2021, p. 321-346.
• Carvajal Regidor, Ignacio. “Exaggerate the Light to Say the Darknesses Dispelled: Reducción and the Dominican order in Antonio de Remesal’s Historia general.” Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, vol. 23, 2019, p 53-72.

• Ph.D. in Latin American Literatures and Cultures, University of Texas at Austin, 2019
• B.A. in Spanish and Latin American Studies, University of Kansas, 2011
• A.A. in Liberal Arts, Johnson County Community College, 2009