thelma trujillo is a writer and educator from La Villita, Chicago. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Masters in Literary and Cultural Studies from Illinois State University. She is currently an English PhD candidate at The University of Iowa.
Her dissertation project titled “Shades of Sanctity: Race in the Hagiographic Imagination” examines vernacular hagiography as a resource for emerging racial discourses in medieval England (ca. 1000-1450).
Photo by Samm Yu Photography
Latest Blog Posts:
Colonial Resist(Ink): An Examination of the Mexican “Sermones Aestivales”
White colonial power limits what can be known about indigenous peoples represented in the Mexican (Spanish) archive. The documents and manuscripts that survive from the colonial period in Mexico (1519-1821) tend to represent indigenous peoples as passive subjects, and it is important to consider whether they would have recognized themselves in such descriptions. As Stephanie Wood asks, “Would [indigenous communities]…
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Toward a Black Girl Mythology: Radical Medievalisms in Donika Kelly’s Bestiary
Mythology stitches fascinating patterns into the tapestry of human experience. Every culture and generation has its own set of myths—sacred, secular, fictional, factual, about humankind, animals, nature—and despite how transcultural, translingual, and transtemporal these myths are, they have a universal appeal. It would be a Sisyphean task to try to explain the many functions for the creation and reinvention of…
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