Galen Brokaw

Assistant Professor
Office: 911 Clemens Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2191 x 1191
Email: brokaw@buffalo.edu
Website: Personal site

Degrees

• Ph.D. from Indiana University

Areas of Specialization

• Colonial Latin American Studies, Historiography, Nahuatl language and culture, Indigenous writing, Indigenismo, the Andean khipu

Publications, citations

• "Ollantay, the Khipu, and Eighteenth-Century Neo-Inca Politics." Bulletin of the Comediantes 58.1 (2006): 31-56.
  
  
• "Ambivalence, Mimicry, and Stereotype in Fernández de Oviedo's Historia general y natural de las Indias: Colonial Discourse and the Caribbean Areíto." CR: The New Centennial Review 5.3 (2005): 143-165.
  
  
• "Toward Deciphering the Khipu." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 35.4 (2005): 571-589.
  
  
• "Nuevas investigaciones sobre el khipu: superando la ideología alfabética." Identidades: Reflexión, arte y cultura peruana. Suplemento del diario oficial El Peruano 4.87 (Lunes, 20 de junio) 2005: 6-7.
  
  
• "The poetics of Khipu historiography: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Nueva corónica and the Relación de los Quipucamayos." Latin American Research Review 38.3 (2003): 111-147. Read this article online.
  
  
• "Khipu numeracy and alphabetic literacy in the Andes: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Nueva corónica y buen gobierno." Colonial Latin American Review 11.2 (2002): 275-303.
  
  
• "El khipu como fuente en la Nueva corónica de Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala." Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala y Blas Valera: Tradición Andina e Historia Colonial. Rome: Instituto Italo-Latino Americano, 2001. 417-29.
  
  
• "Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West and Alejo Carpentier's Los pasos perdidos." Confluencia 15.2 (2000): 100-10.
  
  
• "Holistic Fiction: Cervantes's 'El casamiento engañoso' and 'El coloquio de los perros.'" Romance Languages Annual 10 (1998): 460-66.
  
  
• "Indigenous and European Discursive Modes in Colonial Mexican Land Documents." Indiana Journal of Hispanic Literatures 13 (1998): 105-10.
  
  
• Cited in the New York Times, "String, and Knot, Theory of Inca Writing"
  
  

Current Research Projects

• The interaction between indigenous media (Andean khipu, Mesoamerian codex) and alphabetic script in the colonial period; the history of the Andean khipu

Frequently Taught Courses

• SPA 330: Indigenismo latinoamericano
• SPA 559: The Spanish American Colonial Period
• SPA 510/COL 693: Writing in the Americas

Awards

• Folger, Shakespeare Library, National Endowment for the Humanities Institute Fellow, June-August, 2001.
• University of Chicago, Center for Latin American Studies, Visiting Research Grant, Summer 2001, declined.
• Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Visiting scholar, August 2000.