Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, the Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St-Louis. He is the author of numerous books, including Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market and the Question of World Literature (Northwestern 2018), Screening Neoliberalism. Transforming Mexican Cinema 1988-2012 (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2014) and Naciones intelectuales. Las fundaciones de la modernidad literaria mexicana (1917-1959) (Purdue University Press, 2009)