Andrea is currently a sixth-year PhD Candidate in RLL and a Dissertation Completion Fellow at the Franke Institute. In 2024, she was awarded the Booth Graduate Student Prize for Excellence in Teaching, as well as the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality Course Design Prize. She previously received her double BA in Political Science and International Relations from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (Mexico City) and her MA in History from McGill University (Montreal). Her research engages subjects such as the history of the book, women's intellectuality, circulation of ideas, indigenous epistemologies, and diverse textual technologies in the context of early colonial Latin America. Her dissertation investigates embodied knowledge and the portrayal of knowledgeable Nahua women and Aztec goddesses in visual and textual documents of the Sixteenth Century.
Andrea is also an editor, translator, ceramicist, and writer. Other recent projects include Enredos materiales (Pitzilein, 2025), Cerámica para el chocolate (2024), and the edited anthologies Habitar la biblioteca (Biblioteca Revelaciones, 2023) and El río que no vemos. Crónicas de Tizapán (ITAM, 2017). She is also the author of essays, short stories, and book reviews in literary magazines, such as Luvina, Letras Libres , and Revista de la Universidad de México.
Her personal webpage is andreareedleal.com.
Recent Courses in RLL
- SPAN 10300 Beginning Elementary Spanish III (Spring 2023)
- SPAN 20300 Language, History, and Culture III (Winter 2023)
- SPAN 23325 Indigenous Feminisms of Latin America (Winter 2025)