Doctor in History from the Ibero-American University with the thesis Ascesis, guilt and subjectivity. A study of the life of F. Sebastián de Aparicio, written by F. Juan de Torquemada.
History and Culture Area, Department of Humanities, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, UAM-Azcapotzalco.
Lines of investigation:
*Religious history of the Middle Ages.
*Historiography of hagiographic speeches.
*New Spanish chronicles of the 16th and 17th centuries.
*Processes of evangelization in New Spain, 16th and 17th centuries.
As of 2015, she is in charge of the research project "Analysis and function of hagiographic stories as a way of introducing a new subjectivity", with support from PRODEP.
Norma Durán has taught at the Universidad Iberoamericana and the National School of Anthropology and History, among others. She also has an important career as a translator from both French and English into Spanish, of authors such as François Hartog, Elisabetta Corsi, Frank Ankersmit, François Dosse, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Silvia Sebastiani, Andrés G. Freijomil, Diana Napoli, Antonella Romano , Bruna Filippi, Ralph Dekoninck.
Publications:
Rhetoric of holiness. Renunciation, guilt and subjectivity in a New Spain case. Mexico, Universidad Iberoamericana, 2008, 486 p. ISBN 978-968-859-706-4
Ways to make history. Greco-Latin and medieval historiography, Mexico, Navarra publishing house, 2001, 279 p. ISBN 970-92991-0-7. In 2017 the second edition was published by the same publisher.
Teaching materials:
General historiography. University Anthologies (compilation and introductions), Mexico Universidad Iberoamericana, 1996, 276 p.
Methodology III. History and Narration, (published with Alfonso Mendiola and Guillermo Zermeño), Mexico, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 1995.
Book chapters and articles: among the most recent:
"The missionary in the 16th century", chapter of the book Processes of construction of the identities of Mexico. From national history to the history of identities. New Spain, 16th-18th century, Perla Chinchilla/coordinator, Mexico, Universidad Iberoamericana, 2008. pp. 209-239.
"The journey of a lost space: of lives and miracles of Sebastián de Aparicio", in Lost Places. Use, appropriation and interpretations, Mexico, Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit/Uam-Azc., 2013, pp. 183-256. ISBN 978-6072-801219.
"Syncretism, evangelization and history", Time and Scripture, Number 26, June 2014, http://www.azc.uam.mx/publicaciones/tye.
"Care for the dead: from pagan death to Christian death", in Death. Immortal memories. Memory of the living, Metropolitan Autonomous University, Publication in digital book. 2014.
"History as literate knowledge?", Humanistic Sources, Year 31, Number 59, II Semester, July - December 2019, Metropolitan Autonomous University, Azcapotzalco Unit.
