Nicole T. Hughes - Dying Forms: Martyrdom Narratives on the Margins of Iberian Empire

Nicole T. Hughes is Assistant Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford University. She researches the early modern world with a special focus on New Spain (Mexico) and Brazil in the sixteenth century. Her current research engages with literary and cultural studies, historical anthropology, festive studies / theater history, conceptual history, and rhetorical analysis. She works with diverse texts—chronicles, historias, letters, autos, dialogues, epic and lyric poetry, novelas, legal treatises—and material / visual culture, including feather mosaics, woodcuts, and pictographic codices. Her articles have been published in the Colonial Latina American Review, Representations, and Renaissance Quarterly. Her first book is tentatively titled Stages of History: The Theatrical Invention of New Spain and Brazil in the Sixteenth Century.