Emilio del Valle Escalante
Associate Professor of Spanish
Dey Hall 322
919-962-2062
edelvall@email.unc.edu
Emil' Keme (aka Emilio del Valle Escalante) is a K'iche' Maya scholar from Guatemala and an Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Studies. He serves as a member of the Critical Ethnic Studies Collective, a collaborator of UndocuCarolina, and coordinator of the UNC-Duke Abiayala Working Group. His teaching and research interests primarily focus on contemporary Indigenous literatures and social movement, Central American literatures and cultures, and postcolonial and subaltern studies theory in the Latin American context. Keme is the author of Maya Nationalisms and Postcolonial Challenges in Guatemala (2009), and the forthcoming, Le Maya Q'atzij/Our Maya Word. Poetics of Resistance and Emancipation from Iximulew/Guatemala, a book that was awarded Cuba’s 2020 Casa de las Americas Literary Criticism Prize.
