CURRENT PROJECTS
This long-term project in collaboration with Prof. José A. Rodríguez Garrido (Pont. Univ. Católica del Perú) consisted of a two volume annotated edition and study, with digital facsimiles, of the news sheets published in Lima by printer Joseph de Contreras y Alvarado between May 1700 and December 1711. It was published on traditional and digitally formats (open source). Volume 1 was published in 2017 (download here) and volume 2 in 2023 (download here). The project included two digital sites: a simple personal platform and an institutional website.
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Open source edition, facsimiles and visualizations of the Diario de noticias sobresalientes de Lima and Noticias de Europa (Lima: Contreras, 1700-1711).
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- News Production and Networks in Colonial Lima (1620-1720): the Contreras Family Print Shop
Faculty Fellow at the Humanities Institute (Stony Brook University), spring 2021: Book project on the textual culture of the transatlantic and colonial city of Lima focusing on the Contreras’s printing press from 1620 to 1720. The project includes studies on news textuality, information rhetoric, family networks, native and European news agents and South American and transatlantic postal routes.
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Brothers Jerónimo and Joseph de Contreras in their shop. Detail from Parentación real (Lima: Contreras, 1701). Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University
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- Exploring diverse corpora for the study or vice regal and colonial urban culture: transatlantic and local negotiations.
From ecclesiastical archives, maps, judicial documents, population records to poetry, this project explores information and narration –in diverse formats– for our understanding of the complex and multicultural colonial cities. The project focuses on Lima (1600-1750), but is open to other cities in South America and to the inter-American and transatlantic relations within the polycentric Hispanic Monarchy.
See article on Mariana de Oliva, indigenous servant of Saint Rose of Lima.