Paul M. Worley is a settler scholar from Charleston, South Carolina, and professor of Spanish at Appalachian State University, where he serves as chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. He is the author of Telling and Being Told: Storytelling and Cultural Control in Contemporary Yucatec Maya Literatures and, with Rita M. Palacios, coauthor of Unwriting Maya Literature: Ts’íib as Recorded Knowledge.