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Juan Carlos Mantilla is a scholar specializing in Medieval and Early Modern Comparative Literature, focusing on the interaction between Indigenous Americas and Mediterranean myth, fiction, and art from the 15th to the 18th centuries. His research delves into the reception and transformation of Indigenous pre-Columbian narratives and their material and visual culture within transatlantic geographies of cross-cultural contact. Working from a comparatist perspective, Mantilla engages with Romance, Indigenous, and Classical languages to examine world literature. His interdisciplinary approach encompasses literary, material, and visual sources and emphasizes the contribution of comparative literature to Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American studies. He serves as convenor of the MA Program in Comparative Literature at King's College London and provides PhD supervision for students interested in subjects ranging from World Literature to Material Culture, Archaeology, and the Literatures of the Early Americas.
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