So in my previous posts about Sergio Rivera-Ayala and the odd emails and blog comments that Iris Jastram received (see Shady emails and comments about Sergio Rivera-Ayala’s new book, El discurso colonial en textos novohispanos: espacio, cuerpo y poder and Email from Sergio Rivera-Ayala about the spam and blog comments promoting his book) I held back some details I knew from Iris. I figured it was up to her if she wanted to go public.

Now, in her post Sergio Rivera-Ayala’s Book Strikes (out) Again, Iris has published the fact that the IP addresses of the two comments signed “Verga Parati” (or “Dick for you” in Spanish) point to two different institutions that Sergio Rivera-Ayala was associated with. It’s circumstantial evidence–there’s no way to know exactly who was trying to minimize the problems with the kind of sock puppetry that started the whole thing, or who was using hostile and obscene Spanish words for a fake name. But the IP addresses pointed to a connection in the Waterloo area (where Rivera-Ayala was visitng at the time) while the second came from a UC Riverside VPN address (where Rivera-Ayala was employed at the time).

Now Iris gets a new fake email pimping Rivera-Ayala’s book supposedly from Tamesis Books. It’s not. It’s a fake. And this time, she can tell exactly who it’s from: sriveraa-fr09.artsfaculty.uwaterloo.ca.

So. Yet more evidence suggesting that Sergio Rivera-Ayala is a liar and a fraud. I’m shocked.