Prof. Sánchez Prado's areas of research include Mexican literary, film and cultural studies; Latin American intellectual history, neoliberal culture, food cultural studies and “world literature” theory.
Prof. Sánchez Prado's areas of research include Mexican literary, film and cultural studies; Latin American intellectual history, neoliberal culture, food cultural studies and world literature theory.
He is the author of eight books, including Naciones intelectuales. Las fundaciones de la modernidad literaria mexicana (1917-1959) (2009. Winner of the LASA Mexico 2010 Book Award), Screening Neoliberalism. Mexican Cinema 1988-2012 (2014), Strategic Occidentalism. On Mexican Fiction, The Neoliberal Book Market and the Question of World Literature (2018), and Intermitencias alfonsinas. Estudios y otros textos (2019). Taco, his most recent book, was published in the Object Lessons series at Bloomsbury in 2025.
He is currently working on a study entitled Popular Cosmopolitanism, on genre and the idea of world culture as a social practice in mid-century Mexico. He is also working on a book considering the effects of streaming and transnationalization in contemporary Mexican Cinema.
Prof. Sánchez Prado has coordinated several edited volumes, including Mexican Literature as World Literature (2021), which received honorable mentions in the International Latino Book Awards and the MLA Best Edited Collection Prize, and Teaching the Mexican Revolution, forthcoming in the Options for Teaching series at the Modern Language Association. Prof. Sánchez Prado is editor of the series Critical Mexica Studies in Vanderbilt University Press and co-editor, with Leslie Marsh, of the SUNY Press Series on Latin American Cinema. He is part of the editorial teams in charge of the three-volume history of Mexican literature at Cambridge University Press and of the forthcoming Routledge Companion to the Novel.
Prof. Sánchez Prado’s scholarly articles have appeared in a diversity of academic books and journals in the Americas, Europe and Asia. His recent essay “Endless Proliferation of Signifiers,” a discussion of the state of the field in Mexican Studies,” was awarded the James Whilston Memorial Prize for Article of the Year at the Bulletin of Spanish Studies. Beyond the academy, he has been a contributor to media outlets in Mexico and the United States, including the Washington Post, Public Books, Words Without Borders, Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Mexican newspapers El Universal and Milenio. He has been featured in St. Louis Public Radio, Al Jazeera, the BBC, Mexico’s Canal 22, and a diversity of podcasts and radio broadcasts.
His teaching in Latin American Studies includes the introductory class for Latin American Studies and courses on Mexico, media theory, film and revolution and other issues in cultural studies. In addition, at CAPS, he has taught classes on left-wing political theory, cultural policy, food studies and global cinema, for the Master-level programs in International Affairs and Liberal Arts. Prof. Sánchez Prado received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the School of Arts and Sciences in 2015. He has also received teaching awards from the Graduate School and the Undergraduate Council of Arts and Sciences.
Prof. Sánchez Prado has served in the executive council of the Modern Language Association, in which he has also been part of other committees He is the former President of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present and a current member of the board of the Society for Novel Studies. He has also served in the editorial boards of over twenty journals.
Prof. Sánchez Prado was appointed by the Librarian of Congress as the Chair of the Cultures of the South at the Kluge Center during the summer of 2021, conducting research towards his book on popular cosmopolitanism in Mexican cinema.
Currently, Prof. Sánchez Prado serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies for Latin American Studies.
