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Luis Madrigal is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago specializing in contemporary Latin American literature and culture, with a focus on Mexican studies. He holds a PhD in Hispanic Luso-Brazilian Studies from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. His research and teaching concentrate on 20th and 21st century Mexican literature, exploring the intersection of politics and aesthetics in the context of Mexico City’s transformation into a contemporary democracy. His interests encompass Latin American and Spanish cultural production, literary sociology, urban studies, spatial criticism, and aesthetic theory. Madrigal has received several prestigious awards, including the George Watt Prize from ALBA in 2022 and the Young Writers’ Essay Award from Fondo de Cultura Económica in 2016. He has been shortlisted for the Latin American Literature Literary Essay Award in 2023 and won the Nuevas Plumas Prize in 2017 for narrative non-fiction. His work critically engages with Mexican narratives and artistic practices, seeking to understand their implications within a broader cultural context.
Department of Philosophy