• LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, LATIN AMERICA
• SPANISH AMERICAN LITERATURE

Dr. Heather Allen is an Assistant Professor of Spanish. She received her doctoral degree in Colonial Spanish Literature from the University of Chicago in 2011. She is the Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Newberry Library (Sept 2019-Feb 2020). She teaches Spanish language courses, early modern Spanish American and Peninsular literature, and Spanish American civilization and culture. Her research interests include Mesoamerican indigenous studies, Nahuatl, early modern Spanish American literatures and cultures, and the history of print. Latin American Textualities, her co-edited volume, was published in December 2018. She has also published articles on her areas of research interest in Colonial Latin American Review, Revista de Estudios Hispanicos, Cambridge and the University of Toronto and Arizona Presses.