Heather Allen

Associate Professor of Spanish

Email:
hjallen@olemiss.edu
Office Location:
Bondurant C-111
Phone:
662-915-5981

I teach courses in early modern Spanish American and Peninsular literature, and upper-level Spanish. I also advise Spanish majors and minors.

Research Interests

My research interests focus on early modern Spanish American literature and conquest historiography with an emphasis on Nahuatl studies and the cultural history of manuscript and print.

Biography

Heather J. Allen is an Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Mississippi. She earned her Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Chicago. Her research interests and publications focus on early modern Spanish American and Nahua historiography, Nahuatl, weeping and affect, and material and textual culture. She was the Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Newberry Library in 2019-20, and in August 2021 she received a Fulbright-Hays seminar fellowship to study African heritage in Mexico. Her articles have appeared in journals including Colonial Latin American Review, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, and La corónica. She co-edited the volume Latin American Textualities: History, Materiality, and Digital Media (University of Arizona Press, 2018), which was nominated for the Society of Textual Scholarship’s Finneran Award.