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Emilio del Valle Escalante (born 1970) is a Guatemalan/Maya K’iche’ professor and researcher in Latin American and indigenous literatures and cultures currently at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written and edited books on his fields of expertise as well as various journal articles. He has also presented talks at other U.S. educational institutions.
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Career
Del Valle Escalante received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 2004. His areas of expertise include contemporary Latin American and indigenous literatures and social movements, cultural and post-colonial studies and indigenous studies. Much of his work has been focused on text production by indigenous peoples of the Americas and how these challenge the usual political and social narratives about Latin America. This is part of a broader theme of colonialism, nationhood, national identity, race/ethnicity and gender. He is currently working on a book tentatively entitled: “Before and After Genocide in Guatemala: ReBuilding the Maya World Through Literature (1961-2011)”, which focuses on the poetry of ten contemporary Maya poets related to the (post) civil war in Guatemala (1960-1996/2012).
He has presented his work such as Mayan movements at Penn State Lehigh Valley, and the Guatemalan Civil War at Virginia Commonwealth University.
He has been an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since the fall semester of 2007. Graduate courses he has taught include Indigenous Literatures of the Americas, Contemporary Central American Narrative and Spanish-American Literature:1880–Present. Undergraduate courses include Mesoamerica Through Its Literature, Introduction to Indigenous Literatures, Contemporary Latin American Narrative: Magic realism, boom and post-boom, Contemporary Latin America: México, Central America and the Andes and Introduction to Latin American Literature.
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Sample articles
http://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/712/1266#.UaSbcrXVArU
Other articles have been published in venues such as Mesoamerica, Studies in American Indian Literature, Revista Iberoamericana, Latin American Caribbean and Ethnic Studies, Procesos: Revista Ecuatoriana de Historia and Revista de Estudios Interétnicos.