Catalina Andrango-Walker is a Visiting Professor whose research aims to recover the history and material culture of the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries in the Andean region. She focuses on studying non-canonical texts written by both men and women who were key agents of change in their societies. She is the author of El símbolo católico indiano (1598) de Jerónimo de Oré: saberes coloniales y los problemas de la evangelización en la región andina (Vervuert/Iberoamericana, 2018) and La construcción de la santidad en la región andina: La vida de la beata Juana de Jesús (1662-1703) (Brill, 2023). She is a professor at Virginia Tech, where she teaches a wide range of courses that explore the intersection of cultural history and literature, including indigenous studies, race, women’s writing and artistic production, among others.