Charles Maurice Pigott

Biography

My research focuses on literature written today in the languages of the Aztecs, Mayas and Incas, which are still spoken by millions of people in Latin America. I am Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at University of Strathclyde, Quondam Fellow of Hughes Hall (University of Cambridge) and Member of the UK Young Academy. Between 2018 and 2021, I was Associate Professor of Literature at University of the Americas Puebla, Mexico, prior to which I held a three-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at University of Cambridge, a yearlong Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Autonomous University of Yucatán, Mexico, and a Research Associateship in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. My monograph, Writing the Land, Writing Humanity: The Maya Literary Renaissance (Routledge, 2020), explored ecological perspectives in contemporary Maya literature and was awarded Honorable Mention by the Modern Language Association (Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages). My PhD (University of London, 2013) explored the cultural significance of traditional Andean folksongs, which I documented during a year’s fieldwork in Peru.

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