Comparative Literature

Isabel Farías Velasco is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Comparative Literature, where she focuses on early modern dynamics of colonialism with a literary and linguistic approach to Indigenous agency in Latin America. The major themes that occupy her research are classical reception studies, classical Nahuatl studies, and translation studies. With a focus on trilingual texts written in Nahuatl, Latin, and Spanish, her research explores processes of linguistic racialization,  translation strategies in hierarchical environments, and historiographical poetics across the different echelons of novohispanic society. She explores these dynamics in her dissertation project,  titled “Peregrine Archives: Translating History Across Nahuatl, Spanish, and Latin in Colonial Mexico.” Prior to her studies at Brown University, Isabel earned a degree in Ancient Studies from Barnard College at Columbia University.

Education:

B.A. in Ancient Studies, Barnard College, 2015

Languages:

Spanish, English, Nahuatl, Latin, Ancient Greek