Rita Palacios

Name Rita M. Palacios
School School of Interdisciplinary Studies
Program
  • Bachelor of Applied Health Information Science (Honours)
  • Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) - Accounting, Audit and Information Technology
  • Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) - International Business Management
  • Bachelor of Community and Criminal Justice (Honours)
  • Bachelor of Early Learning Program Development (Honours)
  • Bachelor of Engineering - Electronic Systems Engineering
Academic and Professional Designations PhD, Spanish
Title Professor
Courses Taught
  • SPAN71010
  • SPAN72010
  • SPAN73010
Areas of Expertise & Interest

Contemporary Maya Literature and Culture 

  • Latin American Studies 
  • Gender and Cultural Studies

Industry Experience, Professional Currency Activities
  • Assistant Professor of Spanish, Concordia University
  • Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature, California State University, Long Beach
Major research projects, scholarly activities, and/or publications

Select Grants and Research Projects

  1. Conestoga New and Emerging Research Grant (CNERG), Project title: "From Huehuetla to Turtle Island: A Collaborative Model for Indigenous Language Preservation and Revitalization" January 2023-May 2023.
  2. Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Grant, Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP), Global Affairs Canada. 2022-2023.
  3. eCampus Ontario, Central Virtual Learning Platform Support Grant for OER development. October 2021-February 2022.

Select Publications
Book
  • Palacios, Rita M. and Paul Worley. Unwriting Maya Literature: Ts'铆ib as Recorded Knowledge. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2019, 2022.
Journal articles and book chapters
  • 鈥淐entral America: Poetry.鈥 Handbook of Latin American Studies No.76. Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. University of Texas Press, 2023. 391-392.
  • 鈥淩ecentering the World: Reading Maya Literatures through Xocom Balumil,鈥 co-authored with Paul M. Worley. Central American Literature as World Literature. Edited by Sophie Esch. In press.
  • 鈥淏elonging Beyond Nations Indigenous Writers Rewriting Latin America,鈥 co-authored with Paul M. Worley. Teaching Indigenous Studies of and in Latin America. Edited by Tracy Devine Guzm谩n. Modern Language Association. Forthcoming.
  • 鈥溾橶e are the canon鈥: On Reconceptualizing Hispanic Studies from Indigenous Studies,鈥 co-authored with Juan Castillo Cocom and Paul M. Worley. Tearing Down Disciplinary Barriers: Dialogues between Hispanic Studies and Indigenous Studies. Edited by Gloria Chac贸n, Juan Guillermo S谩nchez, and Lauren Beck. Forthcoming.
  • 鈥淢aya Literature鈥 in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. November 2022. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.1295
  • 鈥淟as palabras pintadas de Comalapa: Ts鈥櫭璱b en la obra de Negma Coy y Edgar Calel.鈥 (Comalapa鈥檚 Painted Words: Ts鈥櫭璱b in Negma Coy鈥檚 and Edgar Calel鈥檚 Work). Co-authored with Paul M. Worley. Cuadernos de Literatura, vol. 26, 2022.
  • 鈥淢aya Poetry from Guatemala: Moving Beyond the Written Word.鈥 Approaches to Teaching Central American Literature. Edited by Gloria Chac贸n and M贸nica Albiz煤rez. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2022. 148-160.
Additional information
Rita is a passionate teacher who enjoys challenging her students to think beyond language. She loves to laugh with her students and sees learning opportunities everywhere.

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