Miguel Martínez's research and teaching focus on the cultural and literary histories of early modern Spain, colonial Latin America, and the Philippines. He is the author of Front Lines. Soldiers’ Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World ( 2016; trans. Las líneas del frente, 2024), Comuneros. El rayo y la semilla (1520‒1521) (2021) and of a critical edition of Catalina/Antonio de Erauso’s Vida y sucesos de la Monja Alférez (2021). Currently, he is finishing a book on the literature and urban culture of colonial Manila. Martínez is Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago.
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