Lecturer, RC Spanish
About
Javier Muñoz-Díaz (Ph.D.) is Lecturer I at the Residential College, University of Michigan. His research focuses on Latin American literature and cultural history, emphasizing the Andean and Amazon regions, Indigenous cultures, and LGBTQ+ studies. He is currently working in his first book manuscript titled “Indigenous Authorship: Racialization of Writing and Development of Extractives Economies in the South America.” This manuscript discusses the emergence of Indigenous-inspired authorial figures who deal with the human exploitation and ecological devastation caused by extractive economies during the 20th century. He is also a founding board member and researcher of Observatorio de las Américas (OLA), a non-profit organization and virtual research center dedicated to supporting non-traditional research, educational projects, and community-oriented enterprises.
Publications:
Muñoz-Díaz, Javier. “Indigenous-Inspired Authorial Figures and Networks of Rural-Urban Migrants in The Fox from Up Above and the Fox from Down Below (1971), by José María Arguedas.” English Language Notes vol. 58, no. 1 (2020): 75-91, doi: 10.1215/00138282-8237421.
