My doctoral research focuses on etiquette and politeness manuals that circulated in Mexico during the 19th- and early-20th centuries, and examines how representations of language and language use are aligned with broader social and economic processes. The 2018 CLACLS Travel Fellowship will allow me to travel to Mexico City to continue gathering and analysing these and other archival materials as part of the research process.

My original project aimed to conduct archival research at some institutions located in Morelia, Mexico. In a direct way, the suspension of activities due to the pandemic affected greatly my project for the libraries and institutions that I had planned visiting and which are now indefinitely closed. Indirectly, the consequences of the pandemic have had other significant effects in this project, but also in my overall research agenda, teaching, writing, and everyday life activities, ultimately affecting the present and many other short-term plans. This has pushed me to not just simply postpone the archival consultations that I expected to carry out during the Summer of 2020 for the project I submitted to CLACLS, but also to redesign this research project by means of proceeding to analyze first other digital materials that are available and that are also important to consider, even when they are not part of my primary objects of study. It has also taken me to re-think the project in many ways and to therefore explore other avenues of analysis.