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Critical Mexican Studies

Critical Mexican Studies is the first English-language, humanities-based academic monograph series devoted to the study of Mexico. The series is a space for innovative works in the humanities that focus on theoretical analysis, transdisciplinary interventions, and original conceptual framing.


Critical Mexican Studies will feature books that question the many received ideas that shape the field of Mexican studies, from the focus on the connections between identity and nation (the topic of Mexicanness that has pervaded the field for decades) to the favored historiographic and philological approaches that have long defined significant portions of the field. Texts that approach Mexico with a more theoretical-conceptual bent or that seek to transgress the methodologies of the dominant disciplines will find a home here. The series seeks projects that engage Mexico through contemporary theoretical conversations—on necropolitics, disability, and queer theory, for example—or books that place Mexico as a site of departure and articulation of new theoretical paradigms like critical race theory, sovereign power, and the posthuman. Books in this series will develop conceptual discussions of interest above and beyond the field of Mexicanism.


The Critical Mexican Studies series is looking for the following types of work: 1) Monographs by emerging and established scholars focused on Mexico and defined by their theoretical originality and the promise of opening new avenues in Mexican Studies; 2) Carefully curated edited collections that define the state of the field at given points in time or that gather the most talented people in the field to discuss a particular concept; 3) Original or translated work by Mexican theorists and scholars. Although the series would be open to books in defined fields—such as literary or media studies—Critical Mexican Studies seeks works performing transdisciplinary, intermedial, and creatively theoretical research.


Series Editor

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado is Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in Humanities, Professor of Spanish, Latin American Studies, and Film and Media Studies, and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Latin American Studies program at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Screening Neoliberalism: Transforming Mexican Cinema, 1988–2012 (available in English and Spanish editions from Vanderbilt University Press).


Series Launch

Watch Cristina Rivera Garza, Robin Myers, John Mraz, Irmgard Emmelhainz, and series editor Ignacio Sánchez Prado discuss the series and its first three volumes:

» Video: Critical Mexican Studies Book Series Virtual Launch




Proposals may be submitted to Gianna Mosser at [email protected]. Please include:

• A project abstract

• Brief main description of the method, scope, and works analyzed

• Anticipated word count, number of images, and timeline for full manuscript submission

• Annotated table of contents

• CV

• A section on works in the field that the project complements and draws on


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Fatefully, Faithfully Feminist

Fatefully, Faithfully Feminist

by Carlos Monsiváis

Edited by Norma Klahn and Ilana Luna

Prologue by Marta Lamas

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780826506337

Pub Date: January 2024

Subjunctive Aesthetics

Subjunctive Aesthetics

by Carolyn Fornoff

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780826506177

Pub Date: January 2024

Sonic Strategies

Sonic Strategies

by Christina Baker

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780826505989

Pub Date: December 2023

Serial Mexico

Serial Mexico

by Amy E. Wright

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780826505613

Pub Date: June 2023

Mexico, Interrupted

Mexico, Interrupted

by Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780826505538

Pub Date: June 2023

Robo Sacer

Robo Sacer

by David Dalton

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780826505378

Pub Date: April 2023

Monstrous Politics

Monstrous Politics

by Ben Gerlofs

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780826504777

Pub Date: January 2023

The Mexican Transpacific

The Mexican Transpacific

by Ignacio López-Calvo

Foreword by Emma Nakatani

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780826504937

Pub Date: December 2022

Unlawful Violence

Unlawful Violence

by Rebecca Janzen

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780826504449

Pub Date: May 2022

Drug Cartels Do Not Exist

Drug Cartels Do Not Exist

by Oswaldo Zavala

Translated by William Savinar

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780826504661

Pub Date: May 2022

Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures

Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures

by Irmgard Emmelhainz

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780826502445

Pub Date: January 2022

History and Modern Media

History and Modern Media

by John Mraz

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780826501448

Pub Date: April 2021

The Restless Dead

The Restless Dead

by Cristina Rivera Garza

Translated by Robin Myers

Price: $27.95

ISBN: 9780826501219

Pub Date: October 2020

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