Rivera-Ayala, Sergio

Education

Syracuse University, Ph.D. in Latin American Colonial Literature. Doctoral Dissertation: Space, Body and Power: Strategies of Colonial Discourse in Some Texts of New Spain (1998). Directed by Prof. Harold G. Jones.

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, B.A. in Spanish Language and Literatures. Honours thesis: Lectura política de México en 1554 de Francisco Cervantes de Salazar (1989).

Biography

Sergio Rivera Ayala’s research focuses on an interdisciplinary approach to Colonial Latin American Literatures and Cultural Productions, transatlantic studies, and Post-Colonial Theory with emphasis on Mexico. He is the author of El discurso colonial en textos novohispanos: espacio, cuerpo y poder (Forthcoming Tamesis, 2008), where he examine the mechanisms of control and domination that were implanted in the conquered territories to assist the colonial system in differentiating, excluding, and dominating colonized peoples. His new research project focuses on difference and heterogeneity, history and identity in Eighteenth-Century Mexico, a period of intense globalization and constant transatlantic cultural exchange. This research aims at providing a description and analysis of the structures of knowledge that accompanied the rise of colonialist and anti-colonialist ideologies during the Enlightenment.

 

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