Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is the Jarvis Thurston and Mona van Duyn Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. A scholar of Mexican literature, cinema and culture, he has published seven authored books and over one-hundred academic articles. His most recent books are Strategic Occidentalism. On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market and the Question of World Literature (Northwestern University Press, 2018) and Intermitencias alfonsinas. Ensayos y estudios escogidos (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, 2019). He has also edited fourteen critical collections, including A History of Mexican Literature (with José Ramón Ruisánchez and Anna Nogar, Cambridge University Press, 2016) and the forthcoming Mexican Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury 2021). His public writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, El Universal and other publications. He will be the Kluge Chair of the Cultures of the South in the Library of Congress during the summer of 2021.
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado es el titular de la cátedra distinguida Jarvis Thurston y Mona van Duyn en Humanidades en Washington University in St. Louis. Como profesor-investigador en el campo en torno a la literatura, el cine y la cultura de México, ha publicado siete libros y más de cien artículos académicos. Sus libros más recientes son: Strategic Occidentalism. On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market and the Question of World Literature (Northwestern University Press, 2018) e Intermitencias alfonsinas. Ensayos y estudios escogidos (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, 2019). Como editor, ha publicado catorce colecciones críticas, incluyendo including A History of Mexican Literature (with José Ramón Ruisánchez and Anna Nogar, Cambridge University Press, 2016) y Mexican Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury 2021), de próxima aparición. Ha contribuido en diversos medios periodísticos, incluyendo The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, El Universal y otras publicaciones. Será el titular de la Kluge Chair of the Cultures of the South en la Biblioteca del Congreso de los Estados Unidos durante el verano de 2021.
