A History of Mexican Poetry

Jose Ramon Ruisanchez Serra is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Theory at the Department of Hispanic Studies of the University of Houston. He is the author of Historias que regresan: topologia y renarracion en la primera mitad del siglo XX mexicano (Fondo de Cultura Economica 2012). He has edited Libro mercado (Universidad Iberoamericana 2015); and coedited Juan Villoro ante la critica (Candaya 2014) with Oswaldo Zavala, and A History of Mexican Literature (Cambridge 2016) with Ignacio Sanchez Prado and Anna M. Nogar. His second monograph is La reconciliacion: Roberto Bolano y la literatura de amistad en America Latina, (UNAM 2019). More recently he published Torres (ERA 2021), a book length essay about the image in poetry and the visual arts. Anna M. Nogar is Professor of Hispanic Southwest Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico. She researches colonial Mexican literature and its readers, and engages in Mexican American cultural and literary studies, focusing on New Mexico. Her most recent book is a prizewinning edition and translation of 19th century New Mexican poetry, El feliz ingenio neomexicano: The Life and Writing of Felipe M. Chacon (2021). Nogar is the author of Quill and Cross in the Borderlands: Sor Maria de Agreda, 1628- the Present (2018), and editor of A History of Mexican Literature (2016) and Colonial Itineraries of Contemporary Mexico: Literary and Cultural Inquiries (2014). She authored with Enrique Lamadrid the prizewinning historical bilingual young readers book Sisters in Blue/Hermanas de azul (2017). Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado is the Jarvis Thurston and Mona de Duyn Professor in Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Naciones intelectuales. Las fundaciones de la modernidad literaria mexicana (1917-1959) (2009), Intermitencias americanistas: Ensayos academicos y literarios (2004-2009) (2012), Screening Neoliberalism. Transforming Mexican Cinema 1988-2012 (2014), and Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, The Neoliberal Book Market and the Question of World Literature (2018). He is also editor of A History of Mexican Literature (with Anna M. Nogar and Jose Ramon Ruisanchez, 2016), Mexican Literature in Theory (2018) and Pierre Bourdieu in Hispanic Literature and Culture (2018).