Viviana Díaz Balsera

Viviana Díaz Balsera received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Yale University in 1989.  She has taught and researched in the fields of Spanish Golden Age and Spanish American Colonial Studies, with emphasis in Mexico.  Her areas of interest are cultural translations, memory, writing and performance in New World contact zones, and the constitution of colonial subjectivities.  Díaz Balsera is the author of Calderón y las quimeras de la Culpa:  alegoría, seducción y resistencia en cinco autos sacramentales  (Purdue University Press 1997), and of The Pyramid Under the Cross:  Franciscan Discourses of Evangelization and the Nahua Christian Subject in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (University of Arizona Press, 2006).  Her articles have appeared in Colonial Latin American Review, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Neophilologus, Hispanófila, and other journals.