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Carla Estefania Flores Ortiz

Lecturer

Romance Languages and Literatures
LN 2238

Background

Estefanía Flores Ortiz’s research addresses the intersections between identity, race, class and gender in colonial Hispanic American literature and culture, with particular attention to the 18th century. She has published articles on Jesuit chronicles and historiography, female spiritual autobiography and theatrical representations.

Flores Ortiz is also interested in the practice of the digital humanities with the purpose of preserving, studying and circulating Early Modern archival documents and cultural production. In the spring of 2023, she was selected to participate in the NEH-AHRC Spanish Paleography and Digital Humanities Institute at the LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections at the University of Texas in Austin.

Before joining Binghamton University, she taught at different institutions in Ecuador and the United States. At Binghamton University, she teaches language courses from introductory to advanced levels, as well as Spanish for Heritage Speakers, and literature, culture and film courses to undergraduate and graduate students.

Publications

  • “Vestimenta, raza y calidad en el Baile o sainete del mercachifle de Diego Molina (ca. 1750)”. Latin American Theatre Review, vol. 56, no. 1, 2022, pp. 23-41. doi:10.1353/ltr.2022.0013

  • “Economía espiritual y religión experimental en la autobiografía espiritual Secretos entre el alma y Dios de Catalina de Jesús Herrera”. In De escritoras a escritoras: Ensayos críticos sobre autoras ecuatorianas, edited by Alejandra Vela and Karina Ortiz. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, 2022, pp. 77-103.

  • “‘Sueños de movilidad’: Desplazamientos espirituales y autoridad femenina en Secretos entre el alma y Dios (1758-1765), de Catalina de Jesús Herrera.” Latin American Literary Review, vol. 47 no. 94, 2020, pp. 48-56. https://www.lalrp.net/articles/abstract/10.26824/lalr.187/

  • “‘Capitanías del cielo contra aquellas huestes infernales’: la Rebelión de los Barrios de Quito y la defensa de la Compañía de Jesús en la Compendiosa relación de Bernardo Recio.” Dieciocho, vol. 43, no. 1, 2020, pp. 81-102. https://dieciocho.uvacreate.virginia.edu/43.1/

  • “Revuelta plebeya, conciencia criolla y reivindicación jesuita: política y gobernanza en la Historia del Reino de Quito, de Juan de Velasco.” Colonial Latin American Review, vol. 26, no. 3, 2017, pp. 386-410. https://doi.org/10.1080/10609164.2017.1350485


Education

  • Ph.D. Spanish, Tulane University
  • M.A. Spanish, Tulane University
  • B.A. Communication, specialization in literature, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

Awards

  • Fulbright Foreign Student Program Scholarship (2009-2011)

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