Assistant Professor

Dr. Jessica L. Sánchez Flores is a Nahua-descent scholar from Guerrero, México. Her research centers primarily on the cultural production by Indigenous artists and creators from México and the diaspora. This research is in dialogue with methodologies and theories from various disciplines such as Cultural and Literary Studies, Critical Indigenous Studies, and Women and Gender Studies. As a part of moving toward an anti-colonial methodology, she developed cosas de mujeres (women’s things) that helps her build a theoretical framework based on lived female experiences. In sum, her work showcases and brings forward the voices and presence of Indigenous artists as weavers of their own stories, who are part of and significant contributors to Mexican society and the world at large.

 

Research Interests:

Indigenous Expressive Culture

Nahua Studies

Settler Colonialism

Native Feminisms

Gendered Violence

Survivance

Diaspora Studies

Critical Indigenous Studies

Latinx Indigeneities

 

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