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Picture of Dr. Emily Hind holding a copy of Literatura infantil y juvenil mexicana, her book of interviews with children's literature and young adult authors in Mexico.
Dr. Emily Hind holds a copy of Literatura infantil y juvenil mexicana, her book of interviews with children’s literature and young adult authors, editors in Mexico.

Emily Hind

Professor

Areas of Interest/Research

  • Mexican Studies (Literature, Film, Culture, Politics, History)
  • Latin American Literature and Film
  • 20th- and 21st- Century Critical Approaches within the Interdisciplinary Humanities

Background

Emily Hind is a Fulbright scholar, Professor of Spanish, and the author of Dude Lit: Mexican Men Writing and Performing Competence, 1955-2012 (University of Arizona, 2019), which received honorable mention for Best Book in the Humanities 2019 from the Mexico Section of Latin American Studies. The translation by Carl Good is now available: Macholiteratura: Hombres mexicanos escribiendo y actuando la competencia, 1955-2012. (Bonilla Artigas, 2025). She has also published Femmenism and the Mexican Woman Intellectual from Sor Juana to Poniatowska: Boob Lit (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Her third book of interviews, Literatura infantil y juvenil: Entrevistas (Peter Lang 2020) gathers 22 conversations with writers and editors of children’s and young adult literature in Mexico.

Dr. Hind completed a Fulbright award to teach and study with the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalalpa, Mexico in June 2015, which complemented her previous three years as faculty in Mexico City with the Universidad Iberoamericana. She has won the Top Lit Prof in Spanish from the grad students at UF four times. Hind is the book review editor for the journal Chasqui. She has been the president of the Mexico forum for MLA and served as the Vice President for Feministas Unidas. She encourages grad students to apply for the Feministas Unidas prize offered for an unpublished article: https://www.feministas-unidas.org/feministas-unidas-awards 

She has written numerous articles on Mexican literature and film, with concentrations on topics such as energopower, sustainabiltiy, disability studies, children’s literature, and celebrity culture. Living writers studied in her recent projects include Jazmina Barrera, Ave Barrera, Alma Delia Murillo, Amaury Colmenares, Elisa de Gortari, Gabriela Damián Miravete, Nayeli García, Paulette Jonguitud Acosta, Jaime Alfonso Sandoval, Antonio Malpica, Mónica Brozon, Julián Herbert, Carlos Velázquez, Carla Faesler, Alberto Chimal, María Baranda, María Rivera, Guadalupe Nettel, Vivian Abenshushan, Mario Bellatin, Sabina Berman, Carmen Boullosa, Bernardo Esquinca, Guadalupe Loaeza, Cristina Rivera Garza, and many more.

She is currently writing a book on plants and oil, studied simultaneously, in Mexican literature, film, and culture, under contract with Vanderbilt University Press.

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Contact Information

Email: ehind@ufl.edu
Phone: (352) 392-5897
Office: 362 GRI

Office Mailing Address
170 Dauer Hall
PO Box 117405
Gainesville, FL 32611

              

Picture of Dr. Emily Hind holding Macholiteratura, the translation of Dude Lit.
Dr. Emily Hind poses with Macholiteratura, the translation of her book Dude Lit.