Kelly McDonough

Kelly McDonough (Anishinaabe [White Earth Ojibwe] and Irish descent) is an associate professor of Latin American literary and cultural studies and Indigenous studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin. Her primary areas of research include critical Indigenous studies; Nahua Indigenous intellectual history; ethnohistory; and Indigenous science, technology, and society. She is the author of The Learned Ones: Nahua Intellectuals in Postconquest Mexico (2014), and various articles on Indigenous literacies, inter-Indigenous class conflict, Indigenous narrative mapping, and contemporary Mexican Indigenous literatures. McDonough is coeditor of the Native American and Indigenous Studies journal.