Kerry Hull

Kerry Hull is professor of religion at Brigham Young University with academic interests in Maya linguistics and anthropology, Polynesian linguistics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and Maya epigraphic studies. He has conducted linguistic, ethnographic, and archaeological fieldwork in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. Hull was coeditor of Parallel Worlds: Genre, Discourse, and Poetics in Contemporary, Colonial, and Classic Maya Literature (University Press of Colorado). His Ph.D. dissertation (published by UMI) is entitled Verbal Art and Performance in Ch’orti’ and Maya Hieroglyphic Writing.