As part of the Seminar in Hispanic Studies, Beatriz de Alba-Koch (University of Victoria) will be presenting on “Fernández de Lizardi: Un ilustrado ‘defensor de los indios’”
Wednesday October 10, 2012. 4pm-6pm. FHIS Department Lounge (BuTo 799), 7th Floor, Buchanan Tower.
All welcome. The paper will be circulated in advance (contact Kim Beauchesne for a copy). Refreshments will be provided.
Beatriz de Alba-Koch (PhD, Princeton) teaches at the University of Victoria as an Associate Professor. She is the founding director of Victoria’s Latin American Studies Program and the founding coordinator of the Latin America Research Group. Her research focuses on colonial and nineteenth-century Mexican literature. More specifically, she studies Enlightenment thought and sixteenth-century indigenous accounts of the conquest of Mexico, particularly in the work of Francisco Javier Clavijero. She also studies Enlightenment novohispano appropriations of Golden Age genres such as the picaresque, female quixotism, and satirical allegories in the works of José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi and his contemporaries. She is the author of Ilustrando la Nueva España: Texto e imagen en El Periquillo Sarniento de Fernández de Lizardi (1999).