Anna More, a candidate for the PhD in Spanish & Portuguese, intends in her dissertation, Colonial Baroque: Siguenze y Gongora and the Administration of the Body Politic in 17th-Century New Spain, to show that the emergence of the figure of the creole “public intellectual” at the end of the 17th century depends upon an appropriation of Spanish colonialism through the internal colonization of New Spain. In Siguenza y Gongora’s broadly heterogeneous texts — popular almanacs, religious poetry, scientific tracts, travel narratives, analyses of Aztec codices — More finds a unique location for the analysis of the relationship between creole cultural production and the institution of Spanish colonialism. Anna More will be the Irving and Jean Stone Fellow during her tenure at the Townsend Center.