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Edgar Garcia is a poet and scholar of the hemispheric and indigenous cultures of the Americas. He is associate professor of English at the University of Chicago, where he is affiliated with the Program in Creative Writing, and is currently a fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities. He is the author of Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis, Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography, and Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu. His adaptations and translations of the mid sixteenth century Nahuatl language Cantares Mexicanos, titled Cantares, is forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press. And he is finishing a book on Caravaggio and the baroque Americas.