Louise M. Burkhart is professor emerita at the University at Albany, SUNY, where she taught in the Department of Anthropology for thirty-two years. In 2018 she received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. She was the 2021–2022 Jay I. Kislak Chair for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas at the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, and is the author or coauthor of ten books on colonial Nahua Christianity.

“Burkhart, a leader in the field on Nahuatl theater, adds Passion plays to her valuable corpus. Using the plays to address a variety of important, interdisciplinary themes like gender, evangelization, colonial life, and agency, she masterfully expands this work’s relevancy far beyond a report on colonial plays. A true pleasure to read.”—Mark Christensen, Brigham Young University​“A rare and rich piece of scholarship—no previous study of Nahuatl theater has undertaken such anexceptional close comparative literary and philological analysis of this set of plays.”—Lisa Sousa, Occidental College

Louise M. Burkhart is professor emerita at the University at Albany, SUNY, where she taught in the Department of Anthropology for thirty-two years. In 2018 she received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. She was the 2021–2022 Jay I. Kislak Chair for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas at the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, and is the author or coauthor of ten books on colonial Nahua Christianity.

“Burkhart, a leader in the field on Nahuatl theater, adds Passion plays to her valuable corpus. Using the plays to address a variety of important, interdisciplinary themes like gender, evangelization, colonial life, and agency, she masterfully expands this work’s relevancy far beyond a report on colonial plays. A true pleasure to read.”—Mark Christensen, Brigham Young University​“A rare and rich piece of scholarship—no previous study of Nahuatl theater has undertaken such anexceptional close comparative literary and philological analysis of this set of plays.”—Lisa Sousa, Occidental College

Louise M. Burkhart is professor emerita at the University at Albany, SUNY, where she taught in the Department of Anthropology for thirty-two years. In 2018 she received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. She was the 2021–2022 Jay I. Kislak Chair for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas at the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, and is the author or coauthor of ten books on colonial Nahua Christianity.

“Burkhart, a leader in the field on Nahuatl theater, adds Passion plays to her valuable corpus. Using the plays to address a variety of important, interdisciplinary themes like gender, evangelization, colonial life, and agency, she masterfully expands this work’s relevancy far beyond a report on colonial plays. A true pleasure to read.”—Mark Christensen, Brigham Young University​“A rare and rich piece of scholarship—no previous study of Nahuatl theater has undertaken such anexceptional close comparative literary and philological analysis of this set of plays.”—Lisa Sousa, Occidental College