Job title:
Lecturer
Department:
Department of Film and Media Studies
Bio/CV:
Luis Madrigal is a scholar of contemporary Mexican culture and film. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University and a PhD in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies from the University of Chicago. His current book project explores the intersection of politics and aesthetics during Mexico City’s transition to democracy, and the transformation of the capital’s contemporary image within and beyond Mexico. His research and teaching focuses on 20th and 21st century Mexican literature, photography, and film, but his interests include Latin American and Spanish cultural production, literary sociology, urban studies, spatial criticism, and aesthetic theory. He has received the George Watt Prize (ALBA, 2022), the Young Writers’ Essay Award (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2016), and has been shortlisted for the Latin American Literature Today Literary Essay Award (2023), and the Nuevas Plumas Prize (2017) in narrative non-fiction.
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