30° Congreso Mexicanista Juan Bruce-Novoa

ROSA BELTRÁN

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ROSA BELTRÁN

PC: Barry Domínguez

Novelista, cuentista, ensayista, editora, fundadora de varias colecciones literarias. Ha escrito las novelas: La corte de los ilusos (Premio Planeta 1995), El paraíso que fuimos (2002), Alta infidelidad (2006), Efectos secundarios (2012), El cuerpo expuesto (2013) y Radicales libres (2021). Es autora de los volúmenes de cuentos Amores que matan (1996 y 2019), Cuentos darwinianos (Universidad de Guadalajara 2020) y de Verdades virtuales, ensayos (Debolsillo 2019). Su novela Radicales libres (Alfaguara) ha agotado varias ediciones, y su traducción más reciente Free radicals por Katakana editores.

En colaboración con otros autores ha escrito El edén oscuro, (crónicas sobre Acapulco); El nacimiento del monstruo (Sobre Mary Shelley y Frankenstein; El Cuerpo femenino y sus narrativas; Acuérdate de Acapulco; La lectura al centro 55 autobiografías lectoras; El arte de hacer la primera comunión; Diario de la Pandemia; Ligeros de equipaje. Cuentos de viajes y viajeros. Es autora del podcast Convers@s. Ha sido traducida al inglés, francés, italiano, holandés y esloveno y sus cuentos aparecen en numerosas antologías de distintos países.
Ha recibido varios reconocimientos, de la American Association of University Women (AAUW), el Premio Universidad Nacional para Jóvenes Académicos en el área de creación, el Reconocimiento Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz por la UNAM, Premio Excelencia en las Letras José Emilio Pacheco 2022, y el Distinguished Scholar por UCLA donde cursó el doctorado en Literatura Comparada, Mención Honorifica para Free Radicals en el International Book Awards. Recibió el Premio Internacional Nuevo León Alfonso Reyes 2024.

Como gestora cultural ha organizado ciclos, encuentros literarios y ferias. Desde la Dirección de Literatura de la UNAM, donde fue directora, inició la Fiesta del Libro y la Rosa con un éxito inusitado. Tal encuentro literario se ha llevado a cabo de forma ininterrumpida desde el 2009.

Fue directora de la Casa Universitaria del Libro y en la actualidad es coordinadora de Difusión Cultural de la UNAM. Es miembro de número de la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua.


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CALL FOR PAPERS

IMAGINING FUTURES, RETHINKING THE PASTS

The Department of Spanish & Portuguese at UC Irvine and UC-Mexicanistas announce the twenty-ninth annual Mexican Studies Conference to be held on May 1-3, 2025. This conference brings together academics from Mexico, the U.S., and other parts of the world who are conducting research on related themes. 

The topic of Imagining Futures, Rethinking the Past allows us to reflect on the field of Mexican Studies in the first quarter of the 21st century. How do academics and writers approach the cultural cannon today? How has the notion of cannon, and its functions, changed over the past century? How has the place of literature shifted as the field has broadened to include cultural studies and the digital world? How do we think of Mexico from within and from beyond its borders in a globalized academic world? We invite scholars to reflect on the past and present of humanistic study about Mexico through literature, film, and other cultural productions, and to imagine and envision various possible futures for our profession.

  • Questioning and reinventing the cannon 
  • New and old aesthetics
  • Anachronistic temporalities
  • Historical writing in the present
  • Mexican cinema and its Golden Age, past and future 
  • Writing about and from Mexico today
  • The digital world as applied to Mexican culture (Posthumanism, AI, Digital Humanities)
  • Queer futurities
  • Race and ethnicity 
  • Migration and future transnational identities
  • Colonialism, slavery and forced displacement 
  • Indigenous futurisms
  • Diasporic futures
  • Ecocriticism and Eco Apocalyptic Futures
  • Disability Justice
  • Utopian and Dystopian Horizons
  • Memory, identity and archive
  • Science fictions, old and new

We will also consider papers or panels that explore other related themes in Mexican literature and culture. 

Papers and presentations for the conference may be in either Spanish or English. Presentations have a maximum length of 20 minutes, equivalent to approximately 8 double-spaced pages. 

If you would like to present a proposal, please submit a 200-word abstract by January 24, 2025.

Abstracts should be submitted electronically via this Google Form. The abstract submission should include: your name, telephone number, email, information about any required accommodations, academic status and affiliation, the title of your presentation, a 200-word abstract, and a short-bio. If you have problems with the submission process, please email: ucimexconf@gmail.com. 

The selection committee will respond to all proposals by February 21, 2025.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Rosa Beltrán and David Toscana

REGISTRATION

This year’s conference fees will be:
$60 US DLLS for students and independent scholars
$70 US DLLS for faculty until March 30, 2025.
Afterward, the cost will be $70 and $80 respectively.

If you have questions, please contact:
UCI Mexicanistas ucimexconf@gmail.com
Jacobo Sefamí jsefami@uci.edu
Viviane Mahieux vmahieux@uci.edu

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Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

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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

AUTHORED BOOKS

  • 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.

EXPOSICIONES INDIVIDUALES

  • Mexican Literature as World Literature. London: Bloomsbury, 2021.
  • Mexican Literature in Theory. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.
  • Pierre Bourdieu in Hispanic Literature and Culture. New York: Palgrave, 2018.
  • A History of Mexican Literature. Co-edited with Anna M. Nogar and José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
  • Democracia, otredad, melancolía. Roger Bartra ante la crítica. Co-edited with Mabel Moraña. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica/ Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 2015.
  • Heridas abiertas. Biopolítica y representación en América Latina. Co-edited with Mabel Moraña. South by Midwest 4. Madrid: Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2014.

Mariana Mora

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Mariana Mora is Associate Professor – Researcher at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Latin American Studies from Stanford University. Her research focuses on struggles for justice against violence and the continued processes of colonization as part of State formation in Latin America and her scholarship is situated within critical race theories, feminist studies, decoloniality and the political.

Her recent scholarship centers on conceptualizing the political through expanded forms of care-work, healing and restorative senses of justice in contexts of patriarchal and racial forms of violence. She is part of the Decolonial Feminist Network in Mexico.

She is author of the book: Kuxlejal Politics: Indigenous Autonomy, Race and Decolonial Research in Zapatista Communities (2018).