Books
The Conquest of Mexico: 500 Years of Reinventions, co-edited with Peter B. Villella, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2022.
This volume explores how politicians, writers, and artists strategically reimagined the Conquest of Mexico to manipulate perceptions within a wide variety of controversies and debates, including those on indigeneity, nationalism, imperialism, and modernity. The contributions consider the role of the Conquest in Mexican thought and discourse since the sixteenth century and the Conquest's symbolic relevance in Tudor England, Bourbon France, postimperial Spain, modern Latin America, and contemporary Hollywood. The essays reveal the Conquest as a perennial medium by which both Europe and the Americas have sought to understand themselves and their relationship with others.
Nuevos asedios a la conquista de México, co-editado con Héctor Costilla Martínez, Lima: Centro de Estudios Literarios Antonio Cornejo Polar, 2021.
La compejidad de la conquista de México y sus secuelas exige un constante esfuerzo de estudio y reinterpretación. La idea de “asedios” tiene aquí un doble significado. Por un lado, la mayoría de los trabajos incluidos en este volumen son asedios a la Conquista, es decir, aproximaciones a los eventos del siglo XVI o a su representación escrita. Por otro lado, invitan a considerar los asedios de la Conquista, un fenómeno que existe en un tiempo pasado-presente. Todos estos nuevos asedios comparten la voluntad de entender mejor el evento, como hecho y como idea, y sus consecuencias en el corto, mediano y largo plazos, no sólo en México, sino en el mundo.
History of the Chichimeca Nation: Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl's Seventeenth-Century Chronicle of Ancient Mexico, co-authored with Amber Brian, Bradley Benton, and Peter B. Villella, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019.
The History of the Chichimeca Nation is a gripping tale of adventure, romance, intrigue, war, heroism, triumph, and tragedy. Its vivid descriptions of the cultural sophistication, courtly politics, and imperial grandeur of the Nahua world explicitly challenged European portrayals of ancient Mexico as a place of savagery and ignorance. Unpublished for centuries, it nonetheless became an important source for many of our most iconic memories of the Nahuas, widely consulted by scholars of Spanish American history, politics, literature, anthropology, and art. This volume is not only the first-ever English translation, but also the first edition in any language derived entirely from the original manuscript.
The Improbable Conquest: Sixteenth-Century Letters from the Río de la Plata, co-authored with Victoria L. Garrett, Latin American Originals 9, University Park: Penn State University Pres, 2015.
The Improbable Conquest offers translations of little-known letters from the Spanish conquest of the Río de la Plata, uncovering a rich and understudied historical resource. These letters were written by a wide variety of individuals, including clergy, military officers, and the region’s first governor, Pedro de Mendoza. There is also a contribution from Isabel de Guevara, one of the few women to have recorded her experiences of the conquest. The letters vividly expose the less glamorous side of the conquest, narrating its misfortunes in detail. They further reveal the colony’s fraught relationship with the native peoples, giving insight into the complexities of the colonization process.
The Native Conquistador: Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Account of the Conquest of New Spain, co-authored with Amber Brian and Bradley Benton, Latin American Originals 10, University Park: Penn State University Press, 2015.
The Native Conquistador—a translation of the “Thirteenth Relation,” written by don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl in the early seventeenth century—narrates the conquest of Mexico from Hernando Cortés’s arrival in 1519 through his expedition to Honduras in 1524. The protagonist of the story, however, is not the Spanish conquistador but Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s forebear, the native prince Ixtlilxochitl of Tetzcoco. This account reveals the complex political dynamics that motivated Ixtlilxochitl’s decisive alliance with Cortés. Moreover, the dynamic plotline, propelled by the feats of Prince Ixtlilxochitl, has made this a compelling story for centuries—and one that will captivate students and scholars today.
Articles & chapters
“Migrations and Foundations in the Literature of New Spain,” Latin American Literature in Transition pre-1492-1800, Ed. Rocío Quispe-Agnoli and Amber Brian, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 17-33.
“The Conquest of Mexico (1861-1867),” The Conquest of Mexico: 500 Years of Reinventions, Ed. Peter B. Villella and Pablo García Loaeza, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2022. 80-102.
“¿Puro cuento?: historietas de la Conquista en México,” Monograph II: La tradición textual de la conquista de México, Ed. Héctor Costilla Martínez y Pablo García Loaeza, eHumanista 50 (2022): 246-262.
“Desengaño y Dasein en El Zarco, Los de abajo y Pedro Páramo,” Literatura Mexicana 32.1 (2021): 97-119.
“Ixtlilxóchitl, flor de la caballería en la conquista de México,” Nuevos asedios a la conquista de Méxic, Ed. Pablo García Loaeza y Héctor Costilla Martínez, Lima: Centro de Estudios Literarios Antonio Cornejo Polar, 2021. 177-217.
“Los Manuscritos de don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl,” Manuscritos mexicanos perdidos y recuperados, Ed. Clementina Battcock, Rodrigo Martínez Baracs, and Salvador Rueda Smithers, Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2019. 171-181.
“The Transcoding of the Codex Xolotl in Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Historia de la nación chichimeca,” Ethnohistory 66.1 (2019): 71-94.
“Las transformaciones de Nezahualcóyotl en la obra de Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl: dos perspectivas,” co-authored with Leisa Kauffmann, Estudios de cultura náhuatl 53 (2017): 175-203.
“Historiografía mestiza: Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl y Joan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamaygua,” Sección monográfica: Crónicas mestizas, Ed. Francisco Ramírez Santacruz y Héctor Costilla Martínez, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 86 (2017): 171-192.
“Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl: A New Native Identity,” To Be Indio in Colonial Spanish America, Ed. Mónica Díaz, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2017. 243-265.
“Tetzcoco en la Conquista,” De Catemahco a Tezcoco: origen y desarrollo de una ciudad indígena, Ed. Javier Eduardo Ramírez López, Texcoco: Diócesis de Texcoco, 2017. 93-117.
“Telling Violence: The Toxcatl Massacre at the Templo Mayor in Sixteenth Century Sources,” Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 22.2 (2016): 109-123.
“Credible, Accurate, and Approved: Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and Mexico’s Patriotic Historiography,” Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and His Legacy, Ed. Jongsoo Lee and Galen Brokaw, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016. 257-282.
“El humor crítico de ‘La muerte de la emperatriz de China’,” Revista de crítica literaria latinoamericana 80 (2014): 359-376. [Mistakenly attributed to Carlos García Loaesa.]
“Conformidad, continuidad y originalidad de las obras históricas de Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl,” Cuadernos hispanoamericanos 769-770 (2014): 89-103.
“Deeds to be praised for all time: Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Historia de la nación chichimeca and Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain,” Colonial Latin American Review 23.1 (2014): 53-69.
“Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Texcocan Dynasty: Nobility, Genealogy, and Historiography,” Texcoco: Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives, Ed. Jongsoo Lee and Galen Brokaw, Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2014. 219-242.
“Tall Tale, Short Memory: Pecos Bill and the Mexican Other,” Journal of Popular Culture 47.2 (2014): 226-246.
“Comedia de un náufrago: lectura anacrónica del capítulo X del libro L de la Historia general y natural de las Indias de Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo,” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 47.3 (2013): 487-508.
“History,” co-authored with Kathleen A. Myers, Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque: Technologies of Transatlantic Cultural Transfer, Ed. Kenneth Mills and Evonne Levy, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013. 153-155.
“Religión, violencia y memoria: algunos apuntes para repensar la conquista espiritual de México,” Repensar la Conquista Tomo I: Reflexión epistemológica sobre un momento fundador, Coord. Guy Rozat, Biblioteca Digital de Humanidades, Xalapa: Universidad Vercruzana, 2013. 81-90.
“Spanish Catholicism in the Era of Exploration and Early Colonization,” co-authored with Kathleen A. Myers, The Cambridge History of Religions in America, Ed. Stephen J. Stein, 3 Vols., New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 1: 177-199. [The collection won the 2012 PROSE Award for Excellence in Reference Works.]
“La conquista del Río de la Plata: adversidad, esperanza y escritura,” Hispania 94.4 (2011): 603-614.
“La historia al servicio de la patria: el patriota mexicano Carlos María de Bustamante (siglo XIX) edita al historiador novohispano Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl (siglo XVII),” Colonial Latin American Historical Review 16.1 (2007): 37-64. [2010]
“Saldos del criollismo: el Teatro de virtudes políticas de Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora a la luz de la historiografía de Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl,” Colonial Latin American Review 18.2 (2009): 219-235.
“Estrategias de familiarización: Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl y el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega,” Pegaso 1 (2006): 28-37.
“El zarco vs. Los de abajo: el ideal denunciado o todos somos plateados,” Chiricú (Fall 2005): 92-109.
“Drama y tragedia en ‘¡Diles que no me maten!’ de Juan Rulfo,” AlterTexto 3-4 (2004): 26-46.
“Vetusta Imperial: América y la Colonia en La Regenta de Leopoldo Alas,” Revista Hispánica Moderna 56.2 (2003): 269-284.
“Reports from the Field: Saving an Endangered Language in El Salvador,” Enfoque [The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at IUB Newsletter] (Spring 2003): 4-5.
Book reviews
González Cruz, David, ed. Gestación, perspectivas e historiografía del descubrimiento de América (Huelva: Sílex, 2018), Hispanic American Historical Review 100.4 (2020): 708-709.
García Soormally, Mina. Idolatry and the Construction of the Spanish Empire (Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2018), Bulletin of Latin American Research 39.4 (2020): 539-540.
Ginzberg, Eitan. The Destruction of the Indigenous Peoples of Hispano America: A Genocidal Encounter (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2018), Bulletin of Spanish Studies 96.5 (2019): 893-894.
Solodkow, David M. Etnógrafos coloniales: Alteridad y escritura en la Conquista de América (siglo XVI) (Frankfurt am Main & Madrid: Vervuert & Iberoamericana, 2014), Revista Iberoamericana 81.252 (2015): 878-880.
Martínez Martínez, María del Carmen, Veracruz 1519. Los hombres de Cortés (León: Universidad de León, México: CONACULTA & INAH, 2013) and Schwaller, John F. with Helen Nader, The First Letter from New Spain. The Lost Petition of Cortés and his Company, June 20, 1519 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014), Colonial Latin American Review 24.2 (2015): 267-270.
Ramos, Frances L. Identity, Ritual, and Power in Colonial Puebla (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012), Colonial Latin American Historical Review (2nd series) 1.3 (2013): 312-313.
Mazotti, José Antonio, Ed. Renacimiento Mestizo: Los 400 años de los Comentarios Reales (Frankfurt am Main & Madrid: Vervuert & Iberoamericana, 2010), Bulletin of Latin American Research 32.4 (2013): 495-497.
Nesvig, Martin Austin, Ed. and Trans. Forgotten Franciscans: Works from an Inquisitional Theorist, a Heretic, and an Inquisitional Deputy (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011), Bulletin of Latin American Research 32.4 (2013): 515-516.
Gillingham, Paul. Cuauhtémoc’s Bones: Forging National Identity in Modern México (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011), Bulletin of Latin American Research 32.3 (2013): 376-377.
Merrim, Stephanie. The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010), Hispanófila 167.1 (2013): 100-102.
Leibsohn, Dana. Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, 2009), Colonial Latin American Historical Review 16.3 (2007): 347-349. [2010]
Lee, Jongsoo. The Allure of Nezahualcoyotl: Pre-Hispanic History, Religion, and Nahua Poetics (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008), Bulletin of Latin American Research 29.2 (2010): 242-244.
Pérez de Villagrá, Gaspar. Historia de la Nueva México, 1610. Trans. & Ed. Miguel Encinias, Alfred Rodríguez and Joseph P. Sánchez (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992), Folklore Forum 36.1 (2005): 45-46.
Textbooks
Tertulia: Cuaderno de conversación avanzada, co-authored with Tania de Miguel Magro, Morgantown, WV: Galleon Press, 2014.
Brevísima historia de la literatura española, co-authored with Alfonso Ruiz de Aguirre and Tania de Miguel Magro, Morgantown, WV: Galleon Press, 2013.
Rimas y leyendas de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (Selecciones), co-authored with Tania de Miguel Magro, Morgantown, WV: Galleon Press, 2013.
Conceptos clave para el estudio de la literatura y el cine, co-authored with Tania de Miguel Magro, Morgantown, WV: Galleon Press, 2012.
Editions
Quiroga, Horacio. Cuentos. Ed. Pablo García Loaeza and Tania de Miguel Magro, Newark, DE: European Masterpieces, 2013.
Ruiz de Aguirre, Alfonso. Cristóbal Colón, más allá del océano. Ed. Tania de Miguel Magro and Pablo García Loaeza. Morgantown, WV: Galleon Press, 2012. [Graded reader.]
Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Núñez. Naufragios. Ed. Tania de Miguel Magro and Pablo García Loaeza. Newark, DE: European Masterpieces, 2011.
Reference
2,001 palabras inglesas más útiles para hispanoparlantes. Mineola, New York: Dover, 2011.
2,001 Most Useful Spanish Words. Mineola, New York: Dover, 2010.
1001 Easy Spanish Phrases. Mineola, New York: Dover, 2010.
501 Essential Spanish Verbs. Mineola, New York: Dover, 2010.
Selected presentations
“The Origin of Syphilization: Eighteenth-Century Criollo perspectives,” Bodies, Remedies, Policies: From Early Modern Chronicles of the Indies to Covid-19 Narratives, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, February 2023.
“Comics y conquista en México,” 75th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April 2022.
“La conquista en monitos,” La tradición textual de la conquista de México a partir de las crónicas de indias (1521-2021), Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico, September 2021. [Online]
“Siempre la misma historieta,” XVII Seminario de historiografía de Xalapa “Repensar la conquista,” Mexico, August, 2021. [Online]
“Mío Cid Campeador indígena en la conquista de México,” XVI Seminario de historiografía de Xalapa “Repensar la conquista,” Mexico, November, 2020. [Online]
“La conquista de México (1861-1867),” Coloquio internacional: La Conquista de México. 500 años de reinvenciones, Chile, October, 2020. [Online]
“Ixtlilxóchitl, flor de la caballería en la conquista de México,” Congreso internacional nuevos asedios a la conquista de México: 1519-2019, Puebla, Mexico, November 2019.
“‘Apocalipsis de bolsillo’: Género, colonialidad y subversión en La feria de Juan José Arreola,” 37th Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Boston, May 2019.
“Ecos de la conquista de México en la prensa durante la intervención francesa”, XV Reunión Internacional de Historiadores de México, Guadalajara, México, October 2018.
“La dura realidad: violencia, abyección y crisis existencial en tres clásicos mexicanos,” 36th Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Barcelona, Spain, May 2018.
“Making Connections: Appalachia & Latin America,” 2017 West Virginia Foreign Language Teachers Association Conference, Charleston, West Virginia, October 2017.
“‘La fantasma de un pueblo entero’: Re-Membering Mexico’s Aztec Past,” 34th Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, New York, May 2016.
“Otredades difuminadas en el Río de la Plata,” 33rd Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 2015.
“De cuñas y cuñados en el Río de la Plata,” 67th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April 2014.
“Domingo Martínez, reinventor de la rueda en el Río de la Plata, s. XVI,” 31st Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington D.C., May 2013.
“Ruben Darío, humorista,” 66th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, April 2013.
“La isla de Zuazo: humor y naufragio en la Historia general de Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo,” 35th WVU Colloquium on Literature and Film, Morgantown, September 2012.
“Colonial Echoes: the Matter of Britain (Geoffrey of Monmouth) and the Matter of Texcoco (Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl),” 30th Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, May 2012.
“Nezahualcóyotl, el rey embozado de Texcoco,” 4th Biennial Modern Languages Conference, Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania, April 2012.
“The 7 Faces of Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl: Notes for an Introduction,” Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Pasadena, October 2011.
“Tóxcatl, Terror, Texto,” 52nd Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, November 2010.
“Malas entradas y peores salidas: ‘naufragios’ en el Paraguay,” 29th Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Toronto, October 2010.
“Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Genealogies,” International Symposium: Reconciling Portraits of Pre-Hispanic Mexico: Texcoco and Current Aztec Studies, University of North Texas, Denton, April 2010.
“Tall Tale, Short Memory: Pecos Bill and the Making of Texas,” 22nd Far West Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Meeting, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, March 2010.
“Lecciones del naufragio y enseñanzas del cautiverio,” 9th Ohio Latin Americanist Conference, Ohio University, Athens, February 2010.
“Cautiverios mexicanos: historia, literatura e identidad,” 1as Jornadas de Cultura, Lengua y Literatura Coloniales, Centro de Estudios Coloniales Iberoamericanos, University of California, Los Angeles, November 2009.
“Religión, violencia y memoria: algunos apuntes para repensar la conquista espiritual de México,” 53º Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, July 2009.
“De distintas misiones: The Mission de Roland Joffé y La tierra sin mal de Augusto Roa Bastos,” 28th Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, June 2009.
