Dr. Heather Allen is an Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Mississippi. She teaches courses in early modern Spanish American and Peninsular literature, and upper-level Spanish. She also advises Spanish majors and minors.
Research Interests
Dr. Allen's research interests focus on early modern Spanish American literature and conquest historiography with an emphasis on Nahuatl studies and the cultural history of manuscript and print.
Biography
Dr. Heather J. Allen earned her Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Chicago. Her research interests and publications focus on early modern Spanish American and Nahua historiography, Nahuatl, weeping and affect, and material and textual culture. She was the Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Newberry Library in 2019-20, and in August 2021 she received a Fulbright-Hays seminar fellowship to study African heritage in Mexico.
Her articles have appeared in journals including Colonial Latin American Review, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, and La corónica. She co-edited the volume Latin American Textualities: History, Materiality, and Digital Media (University of Arizona Press, 2018), which was nominated for the Society of Textual Scholarship’s Finneran Award.
Scribal Voices in Chimalpahin’s Transcription of La conquista de México,
Indigenous Language Literatures of Colonial Mexico,
Boars and Moors: The Hunt’s Function in the Poema de Fernán González
Llorar amargamente:’ Economies of Weeping in the Spanish Empire
Courses Taught
- Span 303 Spanish Composition and Conversation I
- Span 304 Spanish Composition and Conversation II
- Span 322 Spanish American Civilization and Culture
- Span 331 Introduction to Literary Analysis in Spanish
- Span 577 Survey of Spanish Literature I
- Span 579 Survey of Spanish American Literature I
- Span 583 Spanish Golden Age Literature
- Span 587 Spanish American Short Story
- Span 679 Readings in Spanish American Literature I
Education
B.A. Literature, University of Iowa (2001)
M.A. Spanish, University of Iowa (2005)
Ph.D. Romance Languages, University of Chicago (2011)
Recognitions
- Fulbright-Hays Scholar, U.S. Department of State, 2021
- Newberry Library Fellow, Audrey Lumsden-Kouvel and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , 2019-20
- Mini-Grant, Center for Excellence in Teaching And Learning, University of Mississippi , 2018
- Outstanding Academic Title, American Library Association, 2017
- Travel Grants, UM Office of Research and Sponsored Programming, 2016, 2017, 2018
- Course Development Grant, Open Educational Resources, 2015
- Tuition Scholarship, California Rare Books School, 2015