XXII. J.R. Ruisánchez / M. Moreno Carranco – Introduction

Introduction
(pp. 8-10; DOI: 10.23692/iMex.22.1)

José Ramón Ruisánchez

José Ramón Ruisánchez was born in Mexico City in 1971. In addition to his monographs Historias que regresan (2012) and La reconciliación (2019), he has published more than thirty articles and chapters on Latin American literature from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
He is the editor of the volume Libro mercado: literatura y neoliberalismo (2015).
He is one of the co-editors, along with Ignacio Sánchez Prado and Anna Nogar of A History of Mexican Literature (2016), A History of Mexican Poetry and A History of Mexican Novel (2021), published by Cambridge. And, together with Oswaldo Zavala, of Materias dispuestas: Juan Villoro ante la crítica (2011). He has also published seven books of fiction.
He is a professor in the Spanish department at the University of Houston.

María Moreno Carranco

María Moreno Carranco holds a PhD in Architecture from UC Berkeley; she is a professor at the Department of Social Sciences at UAM-Cuajimalpa, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in urban studies. Her recent publications include a coedited book called Spaces of Fear: bodies, walls, cities (2021) that was motivated by an interest in exploring the ways in which emotions and the materiality of the built environment intersect and transform each other. She also coauthored a book with sociologist Rocio Guadarrama called Mundos Habitados: espacios de arquitectura, diseño y música (2020) which departs from established frameworks for studying the creative city, proposing a more situated analysis that considers urban history, the particularities of the place, and the role of everyday practices in urban life.