
Dr Charles Pigott
Lecturer
Spanish
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Member of UK Young Academy Recipient 2023 Honorary Mention: MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages Recipient 2022
Area of Expertise
Indigenous languages and literatures of Mexico, Peru and Bolivia
Cultural memory and biocultural heritage in indigenous cultures of Mexico, Peru and Bolivia
Indigenous philosophies of Latin America
Languages: Spanish; French; German; Portuguese; Yucatec Maya; Nahuatl; Central Quechua; Southern Quechua; some Catalan and Italian
Prize And Awards
Qualifications
Fellow of Higher Education Academy
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Retrospective prophecy in contemporary Maya literature : Chim Bacab's Flower of Memory Pigott Charles M Anticipatory Environmental (Hi)Stories Narratives of Coming Nature(s) from Antiquity to the Anthropocene (2023) (2023) Landscapes of heterogeneity in mid-twentieth century Quechua literature Pigott Charles M Latin American Literature in Transition 1930–1980 (2022) (2022) https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009177771.011 Indigenous poiesis : the semiotics of circulation in Villegas' Maya Poetry Pigott Charles The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics (2022) (2022) Aj-ts'íib or el letrado? Authorial identity in Gómez Navarrete's Bilingual Maya poetry Pigott Charles M Bulletin of Hispanic Studies Vol 98, pp. 415-432 (2021) https://doi.org/10.3828/bhs.2021.24 Cosmic narratology and human exceptionalism in Maya poetry : Villegas’ Yáax K’áak’ [Primordial Fire] Pigott Charles Maurice Green Letters Vol 24, pp. 169-184 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2020.1771609 Writing the Land, Writing Humanity : The Maya Literary Renaissance Pigott Charles M Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture (2020)
Publications
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Languages and Environments Reading Group (University of London) Participant 2021
Research Interests
Indigenous Studies (particularly in Mexico, Peru and Bolivia)
Cultural memory (especially biocultural heritage)
Environmental Humanities (particularly ecocriticism)
Intercultural Philosophy
Interface between Literary Studies, Linguistics and Anthropology