José Carlos Díaz Zanelli is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at Hamilton College. He specializes in Latin American Indigenous Studies and the Environmental Humanities. He holds a Ph.D. in Latin American Literature and Culture from Rutgers University (2022). Previously, he was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania (2023-24) and a visiting assistant professor of Spanish at Trinity College (2022-23).

His book manuscript, Insurgent Veins: Indigenismo, Indigenous Literatures, and Decolonial Cracks (forthcoming, University of Pittsburgh Press), explores the formation of Indigenous decolonial discourse in the Andes and Mesoamerica throughout the twentieth century, alongside the anticolonial postulates that inspire the Latin American indigenista canon. He is also the co-editor of collective volume Worlding Latin America: Corpus, Praxis, and Global Networks (forthcoming, De Gruyter).