Dr. Amy E. Wright
Hispanic Studies
Writer, educator, and professor of Hispanic Studies, Amy has published on serials, imagery, iconography, pop culture, nation-building and national identities from the 19th century to the present. Her efforts to uncover the lost history of the Mexican novel earned a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Award. Wright spends her time between Saint Louis (Missouri) and Mérida (México).
Serial Mexico
Storytelling Across Media,
From Nationhood to Now
No book until now has tied in two centuries of Mexican serial narratives—tales of glory, of fame, and of epic characters, grounded in oral folklore—with their retellings in comics, radio, and television soap operas.Wright’s multidisciplinary Serial Mexico delves into this storytelling tradition: examining the nostalgic tales reimagined in novelas, radionovelas, telenovelas and onwards, and how their foundational figures have been woven into society.
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From the Bosphorus to the Broadcast: Serial Storytelling and Turkish Travels
This summer, my family and I traveled to Istanbul, a city where East and West meet not just geographically, but narratively. Between ferry rides across the Bosphorus, endless cups of çay, and strolls through neighborhoods rich with history, I found myself thinking...
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