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&nbsp;Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market and the Question of World&nbsp;Literature (Northwestern University Press) and Screening Neoliberalism. Transforming Mexican&nbsp;Cinema 1988–2012 (Vanderbilt University Press).

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

The Humanities Are Worth Fighting For

Education

Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life

Remedial Humanities: On Roosevelt Montás’s “Rescuing Socrates”

On Cosmopolitanism and the Love of Literature: Revisiting Harold Bloom Through His Final Books

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

On Lighthouses

Erudition, Emotion, and the Essay: On Jazmina Barrera’s “On Lighthouses”

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Tomb Song

The Violence of Autobiography: Julián Herbert’s “Tomb Song”

The Taiga Symdrome

The Intense Atmospheres of Language: Cristina Rivera Garza’s “The Taiga Syndrome”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

The Art of Flight

The Journey

The Magician of Vienna

Literature as Life: Sergio Pitol’s “Trilogy of Memory”

The Gringo Champion

The Neobaroque Immigrant: Aura Xilonen’s “Campeón gabacho”/ “The Gringo Champion”

<h4>Sue J. Kim is professor of English and co-director of the Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is the author of On Anger: Race, Cognition, Narrative (2013) and Critiquing Postmodernism in Contemporary Discourses of Race (2009), and co-editor (with Meghan M. Hammond) of Rethinking Empathy Through Literature (2014).</h4>

Sue J. Kim

<h4>Keona K. Ervin is assistant professor of History at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She received her PhD in History from Washington University in St. Louis in 2009. Professor Ervin’s main research and teaching areas are black freedom movement studies, urban history, black women’s history, and US labor and working-class history. She is the author of the forthcoming <a href="http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=4244">Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis</a> (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky). She has published articles and reviews in academic venues including International Labor and Working-Class History, Journal of Civil and Human Rights, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, Journal of Southern History, Economic History Review, and Journal of American Ethnic History.</h4>

Keona K. Ervin

<h4>Andrew Hoberek is Professor of English at the University of Missouri, where he teaches classes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature and other arts.  He is the author, most recently, of Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics, and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to John F. Kennedy.</h4>

Andrew Hoberek

<h4>Min Hyoung Song is the author of the award-winning The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American and Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, as well as co-editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of Asian American Literature. He is a professor of English at Boston College.</h4>

Min Hyoung Song

<h4>Curtis Marez is a professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics (Minnesota, 2004) and Farm Worker Futurism: Speculative Technologies of Resistance (Minnesota, 2016), and he is currently completing a third book, titled University Babylon: Hollywood and the Making of Student Bodies. Marez is the past editor of American Quarterly and past president of the American Studies Association.</h4>

Curtis Marez

Reimagining the Working Class: A Roundtable on Economic and Racial Justice in the Age of Trump

Economics and Finance

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

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&nbsp;Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market and the Question of World&nbsp;Literature (Northwestern University Press) and Screening Neoliberalism. Transforming Mexican&nbsp;Cinema 1988–2012 (Vanderbilt University Press).

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

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