Instructor

Research Area(s):

Early Modern conceptions of race, Indigeneity, mestizaje, Ecocriticism, Social Justice

Contact Information

Email: apborunda@unm.edu
Office Location: UAEC B36

Biography

Andrea Phiana Borunda is an Instructor for the Department of English at the University of New Mexico. She is a former recipient of both the Bilinski Fellowship and the Regents’ Winrock Fellowship, the UNM Division of Equity and Inclusion Community Engagement Prize and the Rudolfo Anaya Folklore Scholar Award. Her social advocacy of BiPOC communities informs her scholarly work on race, transglobal identities, and ecocriticism curating a space of mestizaje and the borderlands in the works of William Shakespeare. Her publications are featured in The Victorian, The Middle Ground Journal of World History and Global Studies and the Pennsylvania Literary Journal. She is currently working on a scholarly monograph foregrounding indigeneity and spiritual practices in the Early Modern Period.