Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is a professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Washington University in Saint Louis. His research centers on the relationship between aesthetics, ideology and cultural institutions in Mexico, with a particular focus on literature and cinema. He is the author of El canon y sus formas. La reinvención de Harold Bloom y sus lecturas hispanoamericanas (2002), Naciones intelectuales. Las fundaciones de la modernidad literaria mexicana (1917-1959) (2009), winner of the LASA Mexico 2010 Humanities Book Award: Intermitencias americanistas. Ensayos académico y literarios (2004-2009) (2012); and Screening Neoliiberalism. Transforming Mexican Cinema 1988-2012 (2014). He has edited and co-edited nine scholarly collections, the most recent of which are Democracia, Otredad y Melancolía. Roger Bartra ante la crítica (with Mabel Moraña. 2015) and the forthcoming A History of Mexican Literature (with Anna Nogar and José Ramón Ruisánchez, 2016). He has published over 40 scholarly articles on Mexican literature, culture, and film, and on Latin American cultural theory.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Violence of Autobiography: Julián Herbert’s “Tomb Song”
Tomb Song provides a powerful introduction to Herbert, and is, in itself, one of the most significant Latin American literary works of the decade....
The Intense Atmospheres of Language: Cristina Rivera Garza’s “The Taiga Syndrome”
The mystery that Rivera Garza’s detective confronts is framed by primordial fear, a horror that can't be accounted for even by the most radical fairy tales....
Literature as Life: Sergio Pitol’s “Trilogy of Memory”
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado reflects on Sergio Pitol's "Trilogy of Memory," now out in full from Deep Vellum Publishing....
The Neobaroque Immigrant: Aura Xilonen’s “Campeón gabacho”/ “The Gringo Champion”
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado on why Aura Xilonen is the Mexican literary voice we need right now....
Reimagining the Working Class: A Roundtable on Economic and Racial Justice in the Age of Trump
A round table discussion on state of justice after the election....
