Payton Philips Quintanilla

Lecturer
Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering, Spanish and Portuguese
4319 Rolfe Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1532
Campus mailcode: 951532
payton.phillipsquintanilla@ucla.edu
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Keywords: Latin America, Literature, Andean Region

Payton Phillips Quintanilla is a graduate of UCLA’s doctoral program in Hispanic Languages and Literatures (Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 2018) and a former Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellow (William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2018-19). As a specialist in the literatures and cultures of early modern Spain and colonial Latin America, she is particularly interested in the ways in which individuals and communities—from Moriscos and Sephardim in the wider Mediterranean, to Indigenous and Mestizo subjects in the Andes—communicated a transatlantic and trans-imperial consciousness through their production and consumption of textual, visual, and material culture.

Professor Phillips Quintanilla has participated in various working groups at UCLA, including: The Comedia in Translation and Performance, Indigenous Material and Visual Culture of the Americas, ucLADINO, and the Hebrew Aljamiado Research Group (aljamiado texts are written in Romance languages, such as Spanish, but using Hebrew or Arabic alphabets). She has taught all levels of Spanish language as a Teaching Associate on campus and was a Teaching Fellow in the Department’s summer study abroad program in Granada, Spain. Prior to studying and teaching at UCLA, she was a Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Southern California, a social science instructor in the Los Angeles Unified School District, and a creative writing instructor in Los Angeles County Juvenile Hall.