Pavel Andrade, Ph.D.

Ph.D.   Hispanic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2022

M.A.    Hispanic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2017

B.A.     Latin American Studies, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 2015

Texas Tech University, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, 2023 to present.

University of Cincinnati, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mexican/Latinx Literature, Department of Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures, 2022-2023.

Edited Volumes and Special Issues

Co-editor with Anna Björk Einarsdóttir, Inter-Revolutionary Latin America: Radical Literature and Internationalism from 1910 to 1959. “New Comparisons in World Literature,” Palgrave, series eds. Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee and Sharae Deckard. In progress.

Co-editor with Emily C. Vázquez Enríquez, “Border Abolition in Latin American Literature.” Latin American Literary Review dossier. Under review.

“Peripheral Modernism in Theory.” Modernism/modernity Print Plus Cluster. Forthcoming.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Inevitable and Unnecessary: On Modernism from the Periphery Redux.” Modernism/modernity Print Plus. Forthcoming.

“On a Road to Nowhere: Circularity and Repetition in José Agustín’s Se está haciendo tarde (final en laguna).” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. Forthcoming.

“Acapulco and the Literary Geography of Underdevelopment.” Literary Geographies, vol. 11, no. 1, 2025, pp. 1-20. Print.

“The Prolific Roads of Reedification: Literature, Architecture, and Autonomy in Post-Revolutionary Mexico.” FORMA: A Journal of Latin American Criticism and Theory, vol. 3, no. 2, 2024, pp. 37-58. Web. Print.

“Capitalist Thresholds: La muerte de Artemio Cruz and the Mapmaking of Modern Mexico.” Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, vol. 76, no. 3, 2022, pp. 127-140. Print.

“Nothing But Workers: Reading Class Struggle in Diamela Eltit’s Mano de obra.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, vol. 30, no. 3, 2021, pp. 399-415. Print.

Translation

“Hacia la novela como crítica,” by Anna Kornbluh. Nuevas poligrafías: revista de teoría literaria y literatura comparada, no. 12, 2025, pp. 149-166. Print.

Book Reviews

Mexico, Interrupted: Labor, Idleness, and the Economic Imaginary of Independence, by Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón. Romance Quarterly, vol. 72, no. 3, 2025, pp. 216-217. Print.

After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon. Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, vol. 78, no. 1, 2024, p. 26-28. Web. Print.

Embodied Archive: Disability in Post-Revolutionary Mexican Cultural Production, by Susan Antebi. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, vol. 57 no. 1, 2023, p. 118-120. Web. Print.

“Developmental Aspirations contra Internationalist Solidarity: Mexico and the Global Economy.” Review essay of The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties, by Eric Zolov and Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy, by Christy Thornton. Chasqui: revista de literatura latinoamericana, vol. 50, no. 2, 2021, pp. R15-R18. Print.

Infrapolitical Passages: Global Turmoil, Narco-Accumulation, and the Post-Sovereign State, by Gareth Williams. Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, vol. 9, no. 6, 2021, pp. 151-156. Web. Print.

2023       Professor of the Year Award, Department of Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati.

2023       Honorable Mention, Best Article in the Humanities, Latin American Studies Association, Mexico Section.

2023       Harold G. Jones Award for Best Essay, Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures.

2026       The University of Texas at Austin, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Short-term Visiting Scholar, $5,000

2025       Humanities Center at Texas Tech University, Spring 2025 Faculty Fellowship, $13,000

2024-25  Hispanic-Serving Institution Fellows Program, Title V, Texas Tech University, $3,000

2024       Alumni College Fellowship, “Mexican Literary Countertopographies,” Humanities Center, Texas Tech University, $3,000

2022-23  Research Fellowships for Faculty, “Borders, Boundaries, and Limits in (and of) Screen Media,” Niehoff Center for Film and Media Studies, University of Cincinnati, $2,000

2022-23  Dean’s Teaching Fellowship for Excellence, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, $46,000 (declined)

2021-22  Mellon Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Humanities + Urbanism + Design Initiative, University of Pennsylvania, $33,400

2021-22  Wolf Humanities Center Graduate Fellowship, Mellon Research Seminar on Migration, University of Pennsylvania, $2,500

2021-22  Dissertation Completion Fellowship, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, $32,255 (declined)

2020-21  Andrew W. Mellon Humanities + Urbanism + Design Initiative Research Grant, University of Pennsylvania, $2,000

2020       Dissertation Research Fellowship, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, $5,000

Texas Tech University (Lubbock, TX)

Mexico in the Global Sixties (Fall 2026; graduate seminar)

Global South Cinema (Fall 2026; core curriculum)

Art and Revolution in Latin America (Fall 2025; upper level topics in Latin American cultural studies)

Intermediate Grammar: Oral and Written Spanish (Fall 2025)

Methods of Literary Criticism (Fall 2024; proseminar for incoming MA and PhD students)

Onda & Crack: The Mexican Novel in Transition (Fall 2023; graduate seminar)

Art, Politics, and Everyday Life in Mexico (Spring 2024; upper level intro to Mexican literary and cultural studies)

Latin America: Culture and Society (Fall 2023; survey course for Spanish majors and minors)

University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH)

Form, Space, and the Mexican Novel (Fall 2022; graduate seminar)

Latin America Today (Spring 2023, online)

Speaking in Spanish (Fall 2022, online; Spring 2023)

Spanish Composition and Conversation II (Fall 2022)

University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)

Intercultural Learning: Latin America (Summer 2022; for MA students in International Relations)

Latin America: Language and Culture (Summer 2020 & 2021, online; for MA students in International Relations)

Texts and Contexts: Latin American Literature and Society (Fall 2019)

Introduction to Literary Analysis (Fall 2018)

Intermediate Spanish II (Spring 2018)

Intermediate Spanish I (Summer 2021, online) (Summer 2022)

Accelerated Elementary Spanish (Fall 2017)

Book Reviews Editor, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 2025 to present.
Executive Committee, LLC Mexican Forum, Modern Language Association, 2025-2030.

Associate Editor, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 2023-2024.

Best Article in the Humanities Selection Committee, Mexico Section of the Latin American Studies Association, 2023-2024.

Horst Frenz Prize Selection Committee, American Comparative Literature Association, 2022 to present.

Founder & co-organizer. Mexican Studies Research Collective, mexicanists.org, 2020 to present.

Co-founder. Variations Working Group, University of Pennsylvania, 2018-2021.

Manuscript Review

Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies

Cincinnati Romance Review

Hispanic Review

Intersecciones Hispánicas

Latin American Research Review

Palgrave Macmillan

Radical Americas

Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos

Romance Quarterly