John Charles

Associate Professor - Spanish and Portuguese

School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty
Region
  • Andes
  • South America
John Charles

Courses

Early Readings in Spanish; Ethnographic Discourse in the Chronicles of the Indies; Introduction to Literary Analysis; Historical Novel in LA; Chronicles and Epics of Spanish Conquest; Introduction to Latin American Culture.

Additional Info

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 7

Research

Colonial Spanish American Literature

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Yale University, Hispanic Literatures, 2003
  • M.Phil, Yale University, Hispanic Literatures, 2000
  • M.A., Yale University, Hispanic Literatures, 1998
  • A.B., Brown University, Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies, 1992

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Associate Professor, Tulane University, 2012-
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2005-2012
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2003-2005
  • Part-Time Acting Instructor, Yale University, 1999-2001
  • Research Assistant, Yale University, 1998-2000
  • Instructor, Colegio San Francisco de Asis, El Salvador, 1995-1996

Distinctions

  • Best First Book Short-List Finalist in the History of Religions, for Allies at Odds: The Andean Church and its Indigenous Agents, 1583-1671, awarded by the American Academy of Religion (AAR), 2011
  • Andrew W. Mellon Young Professorship in the Humanities, School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University, 2010
  • Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, 2010
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2005
  • New England Council of Latin American Studies Best Ph.D. Dissertation Prize, 2004
  • Fulbright Fellowship, 2001-2002

Languages

  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • French
  • Latin

Overseas Experience

  • Peru

Related Experience

  • Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University, 2012-
  • Researcher, “Colonial Modernity in the Andes: A Comprehensive Study of Viceroy Toledo’s General Resettlement” (sponsored by the National Ethnology Museum of Osaka, Japan and Vanderbilt University), 2017-
  • Undergraduate Honor Board, School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University, 2007-
  • Latin American Library Faculty Committee, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, 2007-
  • Richard E. Greenleaf Library Fellowships Committee, Latin American Library, Tulane University, 2008-

Selected Publications

  • 2024. “The Catechism through Andean Eyes: Reflections on Post-Tridentine Reform in Inca Garcilaso de la Vega’s Comentarios reales,” Religions 15, no. 1 (2024): 1–16.
  • 2023. “Pagans and Protestants in Early Modern Jesuit Mission: Rhetorical Accommodation in the Works of Pablo José de Arriaga of Peru (1564–1622) and Rodrigo de Arriaga of Bohemia (1592–1667).” In A Stubborn Ghost: Essays in Honor of Henry W. Sullivan, e
  • In process. “Literacy and Orality on the Jesuit Frontier: Indigenous Confessional Practices in Upper Peru (circa 1600).”
  • In process. “Viceroy Francisco de Toledo’s Church Reform in Transatlantic Perspective.” In Colonial Modernity: Forced Resettlement in the Andes, edited by Akira Saito.
  • 2014. “Trained by Jesuits: Indigenous Letrados in Seventeenth-Century Peru.” In Indigenous Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in New Spain and the Andes. Ed. Gabriela Ramos and Yanna Yannakakis. Durham: Duke University Press.
  • 2013. “El poder de los quipus confesionales en las doctrinas de indios.” In El quipu colonial: Estudios y materiales, edited by Marco Curatola Petrocchi and José Carlos de la Puente Luna. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú: 167-190.
  • 2011. “Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala en los foros de la justicia eclesiástica.” In Justicia y población indígena en la América virreinal. Ed. Ana de Zaballa Beascoechea, pp. 203-22. Madrid and Frankfurt: Iberoamericana, Vervuert.