简介

Colonial poetics, literary criticism, history of reading, cultural markets, critical theory. Prof. Téllez specializes in the colonial period with a particular interest in literary theory and criticism. His current research focuses on literary practices during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, such as book trade and reading in colonial Mexico. He is also working on a book project based upon a rich corpus of fictional and non-fictional texts that vilify literary work and characterize it as ignoble in both moral and social spheres. He aims to study whether these negative aesthetics affected the political instrumentalization of the Imperial agenda and the formation of colonial discourses.