EMILY HIND researches topics that relate to Mexican literature and film, such as debt, drugs, piracy, the middle class, and the history of childhood. She completed a Fulbright award in Xalapa, Veracruz with the Universidad Veracruzana in late June 2015. Her current book project contemplates cultural production in Mexico for children and young adults. Her last book, Dude Lit (University of Arizona Press, 2019), looks at the performance of the role of intellectual by Mexican men writers. Hind was voted Professor of the Year 2016-2017 by the graduate students in the Hispanic literature program. She also received a University of Florida Term Professorship, for distinguished record of research and scholarship, 2016-2019. She has published two books of interviews in Spanish with Mexican writers, as well as a book of criticism in English, Femmenism and the Mexican Woman Intellectual from Sor Juana to Poniatowska (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Her essay on Rosario Castellanos won the Feministas Unidas essay prize. Hind has published more than twenty articles on Mexican literature and film in academic journals, and nearly as many chapters in books of collected criticism.