Amber Brian is Associate Professor of Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa. Her primary areas of research include Colonialism and Historiography, Indigenous Intellectual History, and Translation Studies. Her first book, Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Native Archive and the Circulation of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico (2016), was awarded honorable mention for the Modern Language Association’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize. In collaboration with Bradley Benton, Peter B. Villella, and Pablo García Loaeza and with the support of the NEH, she edited and translated History of the Chichimeca Nation: Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Seventeenth-Century Chronicle of Ancient Mexico (2019) and with Benton and García Loaeza The Native Conquistador: Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s Account of the Conquest of New Spain (2015). Her current book project looks at questions of imperial authority, Native sovereignty, and trans-oceanic communication in epistolary correspondence between king and Indigenous vassals in sixteenth-century New Spain