Emilio del Valle Escalante (K’iche’ Maya, Guatemala) is a member of Comunidad de Estudios Mayas and an Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Maya Nationalisms and Postcolonial Challenges in Guatemala: Coloniality, Modernity and Identity Politics (School for Advanced Research Press, 2009). He has also edited “Teorizando las literaturas indígenas” (a special issue of A contracorriente, 2013), and U’k’ux kaj, u’k’ux ulew: Antologia de poesia Maya guatemalteca contemporanea (2010).