The Maya Art of Speaking Writing: Remediating Indigenous Orality in the Digital Age

Dr. Tiffany Creegan Miller is Assistant Professor of Spanish and the Associate Director of the Oak Institute for Human Rights at Colby College. In her book talk at CSUN, Dr. Creegan Miller will employ the Maya concepts of tz’ib’ (recorded knowledge) and tzij, choloj, and ch’owen (orality) to look at Maya cultural productions across media and languages. She will further discuss how the persistence of orality and the interweaving of media forms offer a challenge to audiences to participate in decolonial actions through language preservation.