Andrés C. López

Andrés C. López is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies at Carleton University's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. An Afro-Indio-Jamaican-Guatemalan-Trans-Queer scholar, López employs Indigenous and Black feminist methodologies, focusing on Maya backstrap weaving approaches to reconstruct memory narratives from the Guatemalan Civil War while centering erased queer and trans Maya ancestors.

Research Interests

• Indigenous and Black feminist theorizing
• Queer Indigenous Two-Spirit Studies
• Decolonial historiography
• Cultural rhetorics
• Transnational diaspora analysis
• Interdisciplinary memory studies

Editorial Roles

• Managing Editor, Constellations: A Cultural Rhetorics Publishing Space
• Editorial Board Member, Feminist Formations

Academic Contributions

• 2022: Interdisciplinary analysis of trans Indigenous resistance histories
• 2021: Collective grief frameworks in queer Indigenous scholarship
• 2020: Mythohistorical approaches to diasporic identity
• 2019: Revolutionary Indigenous knowledge systems
• 2018: Poetic memory recovery in critical ethnic studies