History Department Faculty
Sylvia Sellers-García
Professor, Director of the Lowell Humanities Series
Sylvia Sellers-García
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall Room S305
Email: sylvia.sellers-garcia@bc.edu
Education
- M.Phil., St. Antony’s College, Oxford
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Research Interests
Colonial Latin America; early modern Spain; colonial Central America; history of empire; narrative and literature.
Department
Biography
Professor Sellers-García’s teaching interests include colonial Latin America, the Spanish empire, and the meetings points between history and fiction. Her current research project, built on criminal cases from the Archivo General de Centroamérica, focuses on violence and policing in colonial Guatemala. More broadly, her research examines the history of documents, the period of Bourbon reforms in the eighteenth century, and the history of empire.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
- The Woman on the Windowsill: A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts, Yale University Press, 2020.
- "How Things Disappear," Sewanee Review, Volume 128, No. 2, Spring 2020.
- Imagining Histories of Colonial Latin America, University of New Mexico Press, 2017.
- Distance and Documents at the Spanish Empire's Periphery, Stanford University Press, 2014.
- “The Criminal Record,” Virginia Quarterly Review, January 2009.
- When the Ground Turns in Its Sleep, Riverhead Books, 2007.