Catalina Andrango-Walker

Catalina Andrango-Walker, Associate Professor

_{Department of Modern & Classical Languages and Literatures

325 Major Williams Hall

Blacksburg, VA 24061

candrang@vt.edu}

Professor Andrango-Walker’s research addresses constructions of race, gender, class, and identity through an examination of sixteenth through eighteenth-century texts of the Andean region. Her first book, El Símbolo católico indiano (1598) de Jerónimo de Oré: saberes coloniales y los problemas de la evangelización en la región andina (2018), shows how Oré challenged imperial ideology regarding the construction of the natives, ideology that was based on contemporary Western theories that associated latitude and the natural environment with human nature and intellect.

Andrango-Walker is working on two new book projects in which she studies unpublished eighteenth-century female spiritual biographies written in Quito. Her research has been funded by a number of institutions, such as The Mendel Fellowship at the Lilly Library, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, and the John Carter Brown Library. Her work appears in several collected volumes and journals, such as Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, Latin American Literary Review, Chasqui, Symposium, Revista Iberoamericana, among others.

Principal Areas of Research Focus

Colonial Latin American Literature & Culture
Colonialism and Imperialism
Religious Studies
Latin American Historical Novel
Race and Gender

Education

Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature, Washington University in St. Louis
M.A. in Hispanic Literature, Washington University in St. Louis
B.A. in Spanish (minor in English), University of Missouri-Columbia

Professional Roles

Associate Professor of Spanish, Virginia Tech (2017 - present)
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Virginia Tech (2011 - 2017)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, Franklin and Marshall College (2010 - 2011)
Instructor of Literature (distance learning), Universidad San Francisco de Quito (2008 - 2011)
Lecturer of Spanish, Washington University in St. Louis (2009 - 2010)

Publications

Books

La construcción de la santidad en la región andina. La vida de la beata Juana de Jesús (1662-1703). [The Construction of Sanctity in teh Andean Region. The Life of the Lay Woman Juana de Jesús (1662-1703)]. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill 2022

El Símbolo católico indiano (1598) de Jerónimo de Oré: saberes coloniales y los problemas de la evangelización en la región andina [Luis Jerónimo de Oré’s Símbolo Católico Indiano (1598): Criollo knowledge and the problems of evangelization in the Andean Region]. Frankfurt and Madrid: Vervuert/Iberoamericana, 2018.

Edited Journal Volume

Guest editor, Latin American Theatre Review (special issue on Colonial Latin American Theatre), vol. 54, no. 1, 2020.

Journal Articles

"Sacred Relics as a Remedy for Epidemics in Colonial Quito." Early Modern Women. An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 16, no. 1, 2021, pp. 114-22.

"Female Fashion, Divine Punishment, and Local Pride in the Accounts of the 1698 Ambato Earthquake." Colonial Latin American Review, vol. 29, no. 4, 2020, pp. 554-71.

"Música y perfomance como estrategias de conversión en el Virreinato del Perú." Latin American Theatre Review, vol. 54, no. 1, 2020, pp. 125-48.

“La (de)construcción de la santidad criolla en Aprendiendo a morir.” Revista Iberoamericana. 84.264 (2018): 793-809.

“Getrudes de San Yldefonso and Juana de Jesús: Exemplarity and the Construction of the Criollo Identity in Eighteenth Century Quito.” Chasqui. Revista de literatura latinoamericana. 47.1 (2018): 68-83.

“Del discurso piadoso al discurso protonacionalista en la biografía de la beata Juana de Jesús.” Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures. 71.2 (2017): 93-104.

“Memorias hegemónicas contadas desde la subalternidad: relatos femeninos en Memorias de la pivihuarmi Cuxirimay Ocllo.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. 38.2 (2014): 273-94.

“El Colegio de caciques San Andrés y la transformación del espacio colonial quiteño.” Latin American Literary Review 40.80 (2012): 28-51.

“Formación de la identidad ecuatoriana a partir de la música y la poesía popular de las guerras de la independencia.” Araucaria 25.13 (2011): 108-25.

Introduction to Edited Volume

"Introducción: Las regiones que dejaron de ser artísticamente desiertas: Una exploración de las nuevas perspectivas de las prácticas teatrales coloniales latinoamericanas." Latin American Theatre Review, vol. 54, no. 1, 2020, pp. 7-16.

Book Chapters

"The Pacific Ocean as a Space of Freedom, Danger, and Economic Success for the Colonial Project in Verdadera descripción de la provincia y tierra de las Esmeraldas." Hydrocriticism and Colonialism in Latin America: Water Marks, edited by Mabel Moraña. Palgrave Macmillan Editors, 2022. 29-47.

“Armonías de descontento: La música de Getrudes de San Yldefonso en Quito colonial.” En La historia, el arte y la música en el manuscrito de la venerable Virgen del Monasterio de Santa Clara: Quito (1709-1917). Ed. Regina Harrison. Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar: Quito. 2019. 153-87.

“Writing Orality: Turning Quechua into a Language of Religious Conversion.” Latin American Textualities. Eds. Heather Allen & Andrew Reynolds. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018. 27-45.

“Cantando los salmos del Señor en tierra ajena: nostalgia, religiosidad y transculturación en el camino hacia la evangelización de la región andina.” Estudios coloniales latinoamericanos en el siglo XXI: Nuevos itinerarios. Ed. Stephanie Kirk. Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2012. 167-80.

Fellowships, Grants, and Sponsored Research

External

Peggy Rockefellar Visiting Scholar of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University- 2023-2024
NEH Summer Institute at the Newberry Library- 2022
Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, R.I.- 2020
The Mendel Fellowship, Lilly Library, Indiana University ($1,500)- 2016
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ($3,000)- 2013
Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, R.I. ($4,200)- 2012

Virginia Tech

Niles Research Grant from the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences- 2022
Center for Humanitites Summer 2021 Stipend Award- 2021
College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences International Initiatives Support ($1000)- 2019
Niles Research Grant from the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences ($500)- 2017
Niles Research Grant from the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences ($2,400)- 2016
Niles Research Grant from the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences ($3,500)- 2015
Humanities Summer Stipend from the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. Also selected as Virginia Tech nominee to the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend competition ($4,000)- 2014
College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences International Initiative Small Grants ($750)- 2014
Visible Scholarship Initiatives Mini-Grant (with Elisabeth Austin) ($500)- 2013
International Travel Supplemental Grant ($1,500)- 2012
New Faculty Mentoring Project Grant ($1,500)- 2012