Payton Phillips Quintanilla

Lecturer

Payton earned her Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UCLA (2018), and is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Her research explores diverse articulations and exploitations of mestizaje in the early modern Hispanic world, with a particular comparative focus on Andalucía and the Andes. Payton has been an active member of the Comedia in Translation and Performance working group since its inception in January 2014, and has worked extensively with community theater organizations, and alongside team members Veronica Wilson and Laura Muñoz, to develop K-12 curriculum based on the working group’s first translation, The Force of Habit (Guillén de Castro).