I am a PhD student of Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures, currently investigating the discursive entanglements between the subjectivation of women as witches, nature and capitalism in the inquisitorial witchcraft prosecutions in Mexico during the 16th and 17th centuries. The CLACLS 2020 Summer Travel Fellowship allowed me to travel to Spain and undertake four weeks of archival research in Madrid–Archivo Histórico Nacional–and Sevilla–Archivo de Indias–, gathering primary sources that will help me elucidate these relations. The current health crisis has affected my initial plans to undertake my archival research at the Archivo General de la Nación in Mexico City, which has been closed since March this year. Nevertheless, there are also Mexican inquisitorial cases and other documents that I needed to consult in Spain as well, and since the national archives were open for consultations by appointment both in Madrid and Sevilla, I decided to travel there. Even though I will need to travel to Mexico in the recent future, the primary sources that I obtained from the Spanish archives will allow me to create a small corpus for the investigation that I am outlining for the paper required in the second qualifying exam at LAILaC. Thanks to the CLACLS 2020 Summer Travel Fellowship I could get access to the objects of study for my investigation, that will be, not only essential for my second examination paper, but also highly important to strengthen my dissertation proposal with a richness of primary sources that I could not have access otherwise.



