Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is Jarvis Thurston and Mona van Duyn Professor in Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. His research focuses on Mexican cultural institutions with a focus on literature, cinema and gastronomy. He is the author of seven books including Strategic Occidentalism. On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market and the Question of World Literature and Screening Neoliberalism. Transforming Mexican Cinema 1988-2012. The most recent of his fifteen edited collections is Mexican Literature as World Literature. His public writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Words Without Borders and other publications. He serves as editor of two book series: Latin American Cinema at SUNY Press and Critical Mexican Studies at Vanderbilt University Press. He served as the Kluge Chair for the Cultures of the South at the Library of Congress in the summer of 2021.

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado’s edited book, “Mexican Literature as World Literature” has earned an Honorable Mention in the Modern Language Association Prize for an Edited Collection. Congratulations to Dr. Sánchez Prado for this well-deserved recognition! #MLAAwards

• Intermitencias alfonsinas. Estudios y otros textos. Monterrey: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, 2019.
• Strategic Occidentalism. On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market and the Question of World Literature. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018.
• Screening Neoliberalism. Transforming Mexican Cinema 1988-2012. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2014.
• Naciones intelectuales. Las fundaciones de la modernidad literaria mexicana (1917-1959). Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures 47. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2009.
• Poesía para nada. Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro 307. Mexico: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes. 2007.