LINGUISTIC TRANSPLANTS: LEARNING NAHUATL LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IN SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
by Rebecca Smith
In this podcast, Rebecca Smith interviews students and instructors with the Instituto de Docencia e Investigación Etnológica de Zacatecas who participated in a language intensive at the University of Utah during the summer of 2022. In these interviews, Rebecca explores the tensions and unexpected connections between the language, Nahuatl, an indigenous Mexican language, and the land in Salt Lake City, Utah.
About Our Podcaster:
Rebecca Smith is a member of the Digital Salon Editorial Board and a 2022 graduate of UCLA's Urban Humanities Certificate. Rebecca is a doctoral student in the Department of Comparative literature where she studies 16th century colonial texts in Spanish and Nahuatl.
