Books in progress

1. A New String for the Mexican Lyre: The Literary Discovery of Nahuatl Poetry (1826-1941). Under contract with Vanderbilt University Press in the Critical Mexican Studies series.
2. Taming Teotl: an Hermeneutical History of the Aztec Gods. Advanced manuscript.
3. Lira indiana: de la poesía aztequista al canto nahua, 1826-1936. Antología comentada.

Recent articles

1. David Horacio Colmenares, “‘Postreros acentos de la lira indiana’: the Protracted Literary Discovery of the Cantares Mexicanos in the 19th Century,”Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (3): 415–448.
2. David Horacio Colmenares (2021) “‘Su herencia fue el llanto.’ Pathos, memoria y condensación temporal en los Cantares mexicanos.” Colonial Latin American Review, 30: 1, 3-24
3. David Horacio Colmenares (2021) “Katherine of Aragon’s Divorce Hearing: Dramatic Historiography in Calderón’s La Cisma de Inglaterra and Shakespeare’s All is True.” eHumanista 47, 141-156
4. David Horacio Colmenares, “The Bibliographic Muse: Mexican Literature and the Colonial Archive” in a A History of the Mexican Novel (ed. by I. Sánchez Prado, A. M. Nogar and J. R. Ruisánchez), Cambridge University Press, forthcoming Winter 2022

Articles in progress

1. “Republica Gentilica: Aztec Rulership and Infra-Sovereignty in the Nuremberg Map of Tenochtitlan”
2. “Mexico,” in National Epics (ed. by David Wallace), under contract with Oxford University Press
3. “Nueva España Figurada: nuevas hipótesis sobre el plano-mapa de Tenochtitlán (1524)”