Regina Pieck

Regina Pieck is a scholar of the hemispheric literatures and cultures of the Américas, combining the study of Mesoamerican cultural production with contemporary Indigenous and non-Indigenous texts. Her research spans the fields of Latin American, Indigenous, and Latinx studies, poetry and poetics, ecocriticism, and the intersection of science and literature. Her book project, tentatively titled "Refounding the Underground: Decolonial Excavations in the Arts and Literatures of Abiayala," argues that contemporary Mexican, Indigenous, and Latinx cultural production revisits subterranean spaces in order to contest the human-nonhuman divide central to the environmental crisis in the Américas. In this book, Pieck examines contemporary authors intertextually with Mesoamerican codices to uncover different visions of the nonhuman.

Pieck studied at Brown University, Boston College, Harvard, and the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) before coming to Stanford, where she teaches courses on Latinx, Latin American, and Indigenous literatures.