
Obed Lira
Assistant Professor of SpanishAbout Obed Lira
Obed Lira's scholarship focuses on Colonial Latin American Literature, primarily 16th and 17th centuries, Classical Nahuatl literary and visual culture, and post-colonial and subaltern studies. He is currently spearheading the Florentine Codex Project, a collaborative Digital Humanities project that consists of a scholarly digital edition of Bernardino de Sahagún’s Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España. Prof. Lira is also completing a book project that centers on the emotive rhetoric of humanitarian friar Bartolomé de las Casas.
Educational Background
Ph.D, Harvard University
A.M, Harvard University
B.A. St. John's College
Courses
- Latin American Cultural Traditions
- Feeling the Spanish Conquest
- Latinx Literature in the U.S.
Sor Juana: Poet, Thinker, Icon
Research Interests
- Colonial Latin American Literature
- Classical Nahuatl Literary and Visual Culture
- Early Modern Spanish Literature
- Affect Theory
- Postcolonial Theory
- Digital Humanities
- History of Science and Mathematics
Selected Publications
“Cloistered Infinity: Sor Juana and the Metaphor of the Infinite Sphere.” Colonial Latin American Review, vol. 28 issue 4, 2019, pp. 538-555.
“New World Barbarians in Rinconete y Cortadillo” in Cervantes Transatlántico/Transatlantic Cervantes. Eds. Francisco Ramírez Santacruz and Pedro Ángel Palou. Ibérica. Peter Lang Publishing, 2019, pp. 33-47.
“Bartolomé de las Casas, un lenguaje.” Public History Project of Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas - NOTICONQUISTA, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 2019.
“Wonder and the Ethics of Proximity in Las Casas's Apologética historia sumaria.” Hispanic Review, vol. 87 no. 3, 2019, pp. 309-331
Further Information
Contact Details
Location
214 Coleman Hall