The Mexican Studies Research Collective is broadly conceived as a space for academic dialogue, exchange, and collaboration in the fields of Mexican literary and cultural studies.

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  • Cuir Dissidence: Tracing Restorative Criticism and Breaking Bonds with the Mexican Canon

    Join us for a book presentation and conversation with Francesca Dennstedt, author of Cuir Dissidence: Tracing Restorative Criticism and Breaking Bonds with the Mexican Canon. January 27, 2026, 3-4pm CT Available from Vanderbilt University Press. In Cuir Dissidence, Francesca Dennstedt uses affect and queer feminist theory to rethink the boundaries and hierarchies of the Mexican…

  • Television Drama in Mexico: From Broadcast to Streaming

    by Paul Julian Smith Edinburgh University Press Studies the current artistic and industrial transformation of TV series in Mexico – the biggest and most dynamic Spanish-language market This book analyzes, for the first time, innovative Mexican television drama of the current decade. It provides an account of the processes of production and reception for seven…

  • The Absent Stone: Mexican Patrimony and the Aftershocks of State Theft

    by Sandra Rozental Duke University Press Where and to whom do ancient things belong? What happens when they are stolen—not by a colonial power, but by a national museum claiming them as state patrimony? What kinds of healing and restitution can follow? In The Absent Stone, Sandra Rozental tells the story of the Piedra de…

  • Gender Battles: Latin American Women, War, and Feminism

    by Vanesa Miseres University of Toronto Press Covering the post-independence era to World War II, Gender Battles uncovers Latin American women writers and activists’ engagement with war to challenge male-dominated narratives on armed conflicts and fight for political power and social change. Gender Battles: Latin American Women, War, and Feminism by gender studies and Latin…

  • Mexican Canto Nuevo: Music, Politics, and Resistance

    by Claudio Palomares-Salas Oxford University Press Mexican Canto Nuevo: Music, Politics, and Resistance explores the vibrant history of Canto Nuevo, a musical and cultural movement that influenced Mexican music, politics, and culture from the 1960s to the late 1980s. Author Claudio Palomares-Salas delves into every aspect of Canto Nuevo’s evolution, from its origins during the…

  • Music and Political Imprisonment in Pinochet’s Chile

    by Katia Chornik Oxford University Press Over 1,000 political imprisonment and torture centers existed across Chile during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-90). Music was often present in those centers, both as a response to and part of human rights violations. In this pioneering book, Katia Chornik explores the relationships between music, politics, memory,…

  • Macholiteratura: hombres mexicanos escribiendo y actuando la competencia, 1955-2012

    by Emily Hind translated by Carl Good Bonilla Artigas Editores ¿Cómo es que los hombres se convirtieron en las estrellas de la escena intelectual mexicana? Macholiteratura analiza las mañas del oficio y revela que, a veces, el genio literario se apoya en los privilegios que los hombres se extienden entre sí y que lxs demás…

  • Forging a Mexican People: Collective Subjectivities in Postrevolutionary Print Culture, 1917–1968

    by Pablo Zavala The University of Arizona Press A new lens on conceptions of the Mexican state and the people Forging a Mexican People shows how illustrated print culture helped to construct and deconstruct versions of “a people” in postrevolutionary Mexico. Through meticulous research, Pablo Zavala uncovers the ways photographers, graphic artists, writers, and activists…

  • Gay Print Culture: A Transnational History of North America

    by Juan Carlos Mezo González Duke University Press In Gay Print Culture, Juan Carlos Mezo González investigates the relationship between transnational gay liberation politics, periodicals, and images in Mexico, the United States, and Canada from the early 1970s through the mid-1990s. Mezo González examines the production, content, circulation, and reception of leading gay periodicals published…

  • The Aztec Economy

    by Frances F. Berdan Cambridge University Press The Aztec Economy provides a synthesis and updated examination of the Aztec economy (1325–1521 AD). It is organized around seven components that recur with other Elements in this series: historic and geographic background, domestic economy, institutional economy, specialization, forms of distribution and commercialization, economic development, and future directions.…