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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Join us for a work-in-progress workshop with Daniel Runnels (Texas A&M U) on “An-archē-ic writing: From Direct Action to Dwelling.” Thursday, November 12, 2026, 3-4pm CT Reading materials will be circulated with registered participants a week in advance. This work in progress forms the basis for one chapter of a book tentatively titled An-archē-ism in…
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by Marco A. Martínez SUNY Press Shows how four Mexican artists transformed modern culture in the first half of the twentieth century. Aesthetics of Displacement examines how four influential Mexican artists—José Juan Tablada, Miguel Covarrubias, Carlos Chávez, and José Limón—helped shape modern culture during their years in New York. Drawing on archival materials and close…
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by Andrew Paxman Debate Andrés Manuel es una investigación profunda sobre toda su vida, con revelaciones sobre su ascenso, sus alianzas, sus desencuentros y su ejercicio del poder. A través de una narrativa rigurosa, este libro llena el vacío entre la hagiografía y la condena para explicar al personaje en toda su complejidad. Andrew Paxman…
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by Ricardo J. Álvarez-Pimentel University of Nebraska Press Following the Mexican Revolution of 1910, Mexico City’s upper-class laywomen were at the helm of a formidable religious movement that strove to counter state-mandated secular education and its perceived corruption of Mexican society. Known as the Acción Católica Mexicana, or Mexican Catholic Action, these women used anti-communist…
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by Iván Ramírez de Garay El Colegio de México Se ha conformado toda una mitología en torno a lo ocurrido en la Ciudad de México tras el sismo de septiembre de 1985: el Estado que falla, “la sociedad civil” que surge y anticipa la derrota del autoritarismo priista. Este relato —la mitología de la sociedad…
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Join us for a book presentation and conversation with Alejandra Márquez, author of Lenchitudes: Sapphic Representation in Contemporary Mexican Narrative. October 29, 2026 from 3-4pm CT Available from SUNY Press Shows how representations of sapphic desire can subvert or sustain prevailing norms of gender, sexuality, and power in Mexican texts from the 1980s to the…
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by Tamara L. Mitchell University of Pittsburgh Press The novel emerged in lockstep with the nation-state, serving as the cultural counterpart to political form in the modern era. However, these dynamics are unraveling as the raison d’être of the contemporary state veers from its people to the neoliberal market. In Novel Distortions, Tamara L. Mitchell…
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by Emilio de Antuñano University of Texas Press An examination of the central role and political power of informal neighborhoods in Mexico City. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Mexico City was tightly bounded, with a population of about half a million people. By the end of that century, it was an unfathomable megalopolis…
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by Mary Elizabeth Reynolds Bison Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press On May 3, 1887, an earthquake struck near the U.S.-Mexico border. Forty-three people died in Bavispe, Mexico; sixty miles north in Arizona, buildings swayed and a few collapsed, but no one was killed. Today, every person in southern Arizona lives with the…
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by Andrew Paxman University of North Carolina Press An insider’s account of the rise and fall of Mexican journalism since 1980. In the first narrative history of Mexico’s contemporary press, Andrew Paxman recounts the evolution of print and online media between the 1980s and the present. From showing widespread subservience toward authority to playing a…
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