Margarita Zamora
Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Margarita Zamora is Professor of Latin American and Iberian cultures and literatures of the colonial period. She received her doctorate from Yale University in 1982. Her publications include Reading Columbus (University of California Press, 1993), awarded the Katherine Singer Kovacs prize by the MLA in 1994, and Language, Authority, and Indigenous History in the Comentarios reales de los incas (Cambridge University Press, 1988). Among her recent research interests, two major projects stand out: a study and bilingual edition of the love poems of sor Juana Ines de la Cruz to the vicereines of Mexico and a book-length project on racial discourse in the colonial period (initiated during a fellowship with the Institute for Research in the Humanities).

Professor Zamora teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on the colonial period in the department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program. Recent graduate level offerings include a seminar on the discourses of domination and resistance in the 16th & 17th centuries and a course focusing on the creolization of literature in the Spanish American colonial Renaissance and Baroque periods.