Pavel Andrade

Assistant Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2022

Mailing Address: 2906 18th St, Box 42071, Lubbock, TX 79409-2071
Office: 244 CMLL Building
Office Phone: 806.834.8659
Website: pavelandrade.com
Email: pavel.andrade@ttu.edu

Pavel Andrade’s research and teaching focus on Mexican literary and cultural studies with an emphasis on theory of the novel, formalism, and geocriticism. His current research examines the emergence of a countertopographical perspective in the Mexican novel of the long sixties and its formal relation to the tumultuous reconfiguration of peripheral capitalism in the postwar era. He is the founding organizer of the Mexican Studies Research Collective, a member of the Modern Language Association’s LLC Mexican Forum Executive Committee, and the book reviews editor of the journal Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos.

Research Areas

Mexican Literary and Cultural Studies | 20th and 21st c. Latin American Literature | Theory of the Novel | Critical Theory | Modernism | Spatial Literary Studies

Courses Taught

SPAN 5352: Methods of Literary Criticism (for incoming MA and PhD students)

SPAN 3344: Mexican Life and Culture: Art, Politics, and Everyday Life (intro to Mexican literary and cultural studies)

SPAN 3390: Latin America: Culture and Society (survey course for Spanish minors and majors)

SPAN 5376: Onda & Crack: The Mexican Novel in Transition (graduate seminar)

Selected Publications

“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. Print. Web.

“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. Web.

“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. Web.