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Maricruz Castro Ricalde
Maricruz Castro Ricalde, Ph.D., is professor of humanities at Tecnologico de Monterrey, in Mexico. She has edited or co-edited more than a dozen books, including El cine mexicano ‘se impone’: Mercados internacionales y penetración cultural en la época dorada (with Robert McKee Irwin, UNAM, 2011), Global Mexican Cinema: Its Golden Age (with Robert McKee Irwin, BFI and Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), Mexican Transnational Cinema and Literature (with James Ramey and Mauricio Díaz, Peter Lang, 2017), La invención iconográfica: Identidades regionales y nación en el cine mexicano de la edad de oro (UAM-C, 2022), and Detrás de las sombras: Escritoras cinematográficas en el cambio de siglo en México (with Diego Sheinbaum, UNAM, 2024). She has received several awards including the Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez Medal (2010), the ‘Cultura de México’ Prize (FONCA-Brown University, 2013), and the Latin American Chair at Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurés (2019–20), in France. She is a member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNI), Level 2; of the Mexican Academy of Sciences; UC Mexicanistas, and Taller de Teoría y Crítica Literarias Diana Morán.
Contact: Tecnológico de Monterrey, Calle Eduardo Monroy Cárdenas 2000, Colonia San Antonio Buenavista, zip. 50110, Toluca, Estado de México, México.