Pavel Andrade

Pavel Andrade is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Texas Tech University, specializing in Mexican literary and cultural studies. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (2022) and previously served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Mexican/Latinx Literature at the University of Cincinnati. His research focuses on 20th/21st-century Latin American literature, theory of the novel, geocriticism, and hemispheric modernisms, with an emphasis on spatial and economic dimensions of cultural production.

Education:

• Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2022

Research Interests: Dr. Andrade examines countertopographical perspectives in Mexican literature, post-revolutionary spatial narratives, and the interplay between capitalism and literary form. His work engages critical theory, spatial literary studies, and modernist aesthetics.

Professional Roles: He leads the Mexican Studies Research Collective and serves on the MLA’s LLC Mexican Forum Executive Committee. As book reviews editor for Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, he contributes to scholarly discourse on Mexican cultural production.

Teaching: Courses include graduate seminars on 20th-century Mexican novels and undergraduate surveys of Mexican life/culture and Latin American studies.

Lab/Teams: Co-founder of the Mexican Studies Research Collective, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue on Mexican literary and cultural history.