Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is the Jarvis Thurston and Mona van Duyn Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. His research centers on the relationship between aesthetics, ideology, and cultural infrastructures in Mexico and Latin America, with a particular focus on literature, cinema and gastronomy. He is the author of seven books and over 100 articles, and the editor of 14 scholarly collections. His works include Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market and the Question of World Literature (Northwestern University Press) and Screening Neoliberalism. Transforming Mexican Cinema 1988–2012 (Vanderbilt University Press).
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Erudition, Emotion, and the Essay: On Jazmina Barrera’s “On Lighthouses”
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado reviews "On Lighthouses," the new essay collection by Jazmina Barrera translated by Christina MacSweeney....
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....
