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Amy E. Wright is a Professor of Hispanic Studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Saint Louis University (SLU), part of the College of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on print culture in Mexico, popular seriality in Latin America, and Latin American literary and cultural history from the 19th century to the present. She holds a Ph.D. from Brown University (2006), an M.A. (2002), and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1995).
Her work bridges media studies, literary analysis, and historical inquiry, with notable publications including Serial Mexico: Storytelling Across Media (2023) and contributions to the Cambridge History of the Mexican Novel (forthcoming 2024). She has been featured in the STL Post Dispatch (2023) and the Associated Press (2020).
Award-winning educator, Wright received the 2022 Donald G. Brennan Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring and the 2017 Helen I. Mandeville Award for Undergraduate Teaching. Her honors also include a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2022) and multiple Mellon Grants (2021, 2014, 2011). She is actively involved in professional organizations like the Modern Language Association and the American Comparative Literature Association.
Her research emphasizes serial storytelling’s role in shaping national identity and cultural discourse, with a focus on Mexico’s 19th-century print culture and its legacy in contemporary media. No lab or team affiliations are explicitly listed, though her work involves collaborative endeavors through SLU’s academic networks.
