Catalina Andrango-Walker is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Virginia Tech. As a scholar of colonial Latin American Studies, her research addresses constructions of identity, race, and gender through an examination of 16th- through 18th-century texts, with particular attention to the criollo writing in the Andean region. 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 (Iberoamericana-Vervuert 2018) and La construcción de la santidad en la región andina. La vida de la beata Juana de Jesús (1662-1703) (Brill, 2022). Her work also appears in several collected volumes and journals. Her current book project, tentatively titled, South and North America: Viceregal Contacts in the Hispanic World, draws on her expertise in the Andean region to explore a new line of inquiry by examining the experiences of soldiers, missionaries, and other officials of the Spanish crown who traveled between the Viceroyalty of Peru and the Viceroyalty of New Spain, and particularly to La Florida, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.