Pavel Andrade

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paveler@sas.upenn.edu
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Ph.D., Hispanic Studies

My research and teaching focus on Mexican literary and cultural studies, modern and contemporary Latin American literature, critical theory, and political economy. My doctoral dissertation, “Patterns of Accumulation: Capital, Form, and the Spatial Composition of the Mexican Novel (1962-2017),” studies the relation between literary form and the spatialization of capital in the context of Mexico’s uneven transition from state-led industrialization toward a new export-oriented pattern of capital accumulation.

At Penn I have taught courses on literary analysis and Latin American cultural history with the Department of Romance Languages and The Lauder Institute’s Latin America Regional Program. In 2018 I co-founded Variations, an interdisciplinary working group focused on Marxism, critical theory, and literary theory. More recently, I founded the Mexican Studies Research Collective, an international network of scholars whose research focuses on Mexican literary and cultural studies. I am affiliated with the Humanities + Urbanism + Design Initiative, the Wolf Humanities Center and the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies.
Research Interests: 
  • Mexican Literary and Cultural Studies
  • 20th and 21st Century Latin American Literature
  • Latin American Studies
  • Urban Studies and Critical Geography
  • International Political Economy
  • Border and Migration Studies
Selected Publications: 

“Nothing but Workers: Reading Class Struggle in Diamela Eltit’s Mano de obra,” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 2021, doi:10.1080/13569325.2021.1968809

“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.

Review of 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, doi:10.5070/T49653496.

Courses Taught: 
  • INTS 611, Latin America Regional Program: Language and Culture
  • SPAN 219, Texts and Contexts
  • SPAN 223, Intro to Literary Analysis 
  • SPAN 140, Intermediate Spanish II 
  • SPAN 130, Intermediate Spanish I
  • SPAN 121, Accelerated Elementary Spanish 
Education: 

Graduate Certificate in World History (2019)

Graduate Certificate in Latin American Studies (2018)

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

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

Affiliations: 
  • Northeast Modern Language Association
  • Marxist Literary Group
  • Latin American Studies Association
  • Modern Language Association
  • Association for Latin American Art
  • American Comparative Literature Association
  • Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts