Featured Scholar: October 2024

Dr. Pavel Andrade
(Assistant Professor, Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures)

What are you watching/streaming?

I recently finished watching Succession. I also re-watched The Newsroom over the summer (I do this every now and then with Sorkin’s shows). I have spent some time watching Apple TV’s Acapulco and look forward to the new seasons of Shrinking and Severance.

What games are you playing?

I play a lot of chess online, but that’s mostly it.

What are you listening to?

I’ve been spending a lot of time listening to a playlist that I put together as part of a research project focused on the literary cartography of Acapulco, Mexico, it includes songs by popular composers such as José Agustín Ramírez and Agustín Lara, as well as more contemporary songwriters like Natalia Lafourcade and Omara Portuondo. I’ve also been listening to Silvio Rodríguez’s latest album, Quería saber (2024), and catching up on The American Vandal podcast (hosted by Matt Seybold).

What are you reading?

Tolstoy’s War and Peace (I know, just what you would expect from someone who works on Mexican literature).

What are you writing/thinking about?

I am currently working on two book projects, the first one is a monograph that examines the emergence of a countertopographical perspective in the Mexican novel of the long sixties, the second one a short book that focuses on the sui generis modernism of the so-called Latin American literary “Boom.” I am also working on an essay on class and the novel for the upcoming Routledge Companion to the Novel.