DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

Biography

Mariajosé Rodríguez Pliego (PhD in Comparative Literature, Brown University) is a College Fellow at Northwestern. She is a comparative scholar of Latinx, Indigenous, and Latin American literature.

Her book project, "Foundational Futures: Nationhood, Migration, and Environment in the Literatures of Abiayala," explores the language of nationalism in the United States and Mexico from the nineteenth century to the present. Bridging national and disciplinary boundaries, her project learns from oral and written stories in English, Nahuatl, and Spanish that imagine forms of land ownership and belonging outside the structures created by nation-states.

Her work has been recognized by the American Comparative Literature Association and is published in Comparative Literature and forthcoming in Revista de Estudios Hispanicos. At Northwestern, she teaches interdisciplinary courses on Latinx studies, Indigenous literature, Latin American fiction, and literatures of the borderlands.

Specializations

Diaspora Studies, Latina & Latino Literature, Critical Race & Ethnicity Studies