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
Additional Info
Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses:
Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years:
7
Research
Colonial Spanish American Literature, Latin American literature
Degrees
- A.B., Brown University, Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies, 1992
- M.A., Yale University, Hispanic Literatures, 1998
- M.Phil, Yale University, Hispanic Literatures, 2000
- Ph.D., Yale University, Hispanic Literatures, 2003
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
Selected Publications
- In progress. “After Cajamara: Religious Books in Post-Conquest Peru.”
- Forthcoming. “El Tercer Concilio de Lima en los Comentarios reales del Inca Garcilaso.” In Discurso e historia en los Comentarios reales del Inca Garcilaso. Ed. José Antonio Rodríguez Garrido, Pedro Guibovich Pérez, and Carmela Zanelli. Lima: Pontificia U
- 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.
- 2010. Allies at Odds: The Andean Church and its Indigenous Agents, 1583-1671. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.
- 2007. “More Ladino than Necessary: Indigenous Litigants and the Language Policy Debate in Mid-Colonial Peru.” Colonial Latin American Review. 16 (1): 23-47.
- 2007. “Unreliable Confessions: Khipus in the Colonial Parish.” The Americas. 64 (1): 11-33.