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Amy E. Wright, Ph.D.

Professor of Hispanic Studies
Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Education

Ph.D., Brown University, 2006
M.A., Brown University, 2002
B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995

Research Interests

  • Print Culture in Mexico
  • Popular Seriality in Latin America
  • Latin American Literary and Cultural History
  • Media Studies and Popular Culture in Mexico from the 19th Century to the Present

Publications and Media Placements

  • Serial Mexico: Storytelling Across Media, from Nationhood to Now. Vanderbilt UP, 2023.
  • 鈥淪erialization and the Novel鈥�. Cambridge History of the Mexican Novel. Cambridge UP. Forthcoming, 2024
  • Interview. STL Post Dispatch, January 2023. "How a Mexican Journalist Sparked a Revolution from Saint Louis."
  • 鈥淩epresentaciones de la democracia popular a trav茅s de Don Catarino y su apreciable familia (1921-26)鈥�. Culturas de la prensa en M茅xico: 1880-1930. UNAM Press, 2022.
  • AP Interview, Monday September 14, 2020.  By Christopher Torchia, Latin American Editor for the Associated Press 鈥� Mexico City. Published Tuesday September 15, 2020.
  • "The Cult of 尝颈产别谤迟茅 in Latin America: From Nineteenth-Century Political Thought to Popular National Iconography." Teaching Representations of the French Revolution. MLA Press, 2019. 314-335.
  • Conversant/Host, Author Event for Book Release Sponsored by Left Bank Books, St. Louis, MO, November 2017
  • "Early Nineteenth-Century Nation-Building Prose." Cambridge History of Mexican Literature. Eds. A. Nogar, J.R. Ruis谩nchez Serra & I. S谩nchez Prado. Cambridge University Press, 2016. 143-157.
  • 鈥淪erial Space-Time as New Form of National Consciousness: Lizardi鈥檚 El Periquillo Sarniento (1816)." Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 2016. 839-57.
  • 鈥淭he Closest Layer of the Palimpsest: Unearthing the Nineteenth-Century Serial Novel in Serna鈥檚 Angeles del abismo (2004).鈥� Latin American Literary Review, No. 81, 2013: 91-108.
  • 鈥淕enaro Garc铆a鈥檚 Leona Vicario, hero铆na insurgente (1910): or, a Centennial-Year Revision of the Mexican Woman鈥檚 Place in the Public Sphere.鈥� Iberoamericana: Am茅rica Latina-Espa帽a-Portugal. Narrativas del Centenario y el Bicentenario de la Independencia en Latinoam茅rica, No. 39, 2010: 145-160.
  • 鈥淟a mirada y los marginados en la Misericordia 驳补濒诲辞蝉颈补苍补.鈥� Anales Galdosianos No. 44-45, 2009-2010: 93-112. 
  • 鈥淣ovels, Newspapers, and Nation: The Beginnings of Serial Fiction in Nineteenth-Century Mexico.鈥� Chapter 3. Building Nineteenth-Century Latin America: Re-rooted Cultures, Identities, and Nations. Eds. William Acree & J. C. Gonz谩lez Espitia. Vanderbilt University Press, 2009.
  • 鈥淓ntre Espa帽a y las Am茅ricas, el liberalismo y el nacionalismo: El caso del trotamundos transatl谩ntico Juan Mart铆nez Villergas (1817-1894).鈥� Siglo Diecinueve No. 13 (2007): 19-36.
  • 鈥�El bastardo Mudarra (1612): Una exploraci贸n de la figura del Otro en su contexto literario y social." Anuario Lope de Vega 8 (2003): 197-208.

Honors and Awards

  • 2022 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.
  • 2022 Donald G. Brennan Award for 抖阴pro in Graduate Mentoring, College of Arts & Sciences, SLU.
  • 2021 Beaumont Fellowship, Office of the Vice President for Research, SLU.
  • 2021 Stolle Award, College of Arts and Sciences, SLU.
  • 2021, 2014 & 2011 Mellon Grant in the Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences, SLU.
  • 2017 Helen I. Mandeville Award for 抖阴pro in Undergraduate Teaching in the Humanities, CAS, SLU.
  • 2015 Innovative Teaching Fellowship, Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching & Learning, SLU.
  • 2014 Nominee, James H. Korn Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Award, SLU

Professional Organizations and Associations

  • Modern Language Association
  • Latin American Studies Association
  • American Comparative Literature Association
  • University of California Association of Mexicanists
  • UNAM/UC Working Group: Culture & The Press in Mexico
  • American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese