Javier Munoz-Diaz

Javier Muñoz-Díaz is a literary and cultural critic. He has a Ph.D. in Spanish from the University of Colorado at Boulder and has taught at the University of Denver and the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the cultural history of the Andean and Amazon regions, Indigenismo, Indigenity, LGBTQ+ Studies, and Environmental Humanities. He is currently working on his first book manuscript titled “Indigenista Authorship: Race and Gender Coding in the Andes.” He is also a founding board member and researcher of Observatorio de las Américas (OLA), a non-profit organization and virtual research center dedicated to supporting non-traditional research, educational projects, and community-oriented enterprises.