After completing my PhD in Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill, I was hired as an Assistant Professor of Spanish by the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of North Dakota in Fall 2009.

I defended my dissertation entitled “Telling and Being Told: Storytelling and Cultural Control in Contemporary Mexican and Yukatek Maya Literatures” in March 2009 under the direction of Dr. Rosa Perelmuter. More broadly, my academic specialization is in contemporary Latin American literatures and cultures, with my research interests being indigenous rights movements in Latin America, Postcolonial Theory, and Subaltern Studies.

I have several ongoing projects, not the least of which is a trilingual oral history project that I have designed with the Yukatek Maya storyteller Mariano Bonilla Caamal, “U tsikbalil yucatáan/Cuentos de Yucatán/Stories from Yucatan.” I am also working on two articles dealing with memory and history in Yukatek Maya literature.

On the left is where you will find information about the courses that I am teaching and have taught here at UND, as well as a link to my current CV.

You can email me at paul.worley (at) und.edu.