HISTORY OF THE BOOK AND WRITTEN CULTURE IN MEXICO. REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES: South Volume

PhD in Art History (UNAM). Since 2009 she is a permanent tenured researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas (UNAM), where she founded in 2012, and since then coordinates, the Seminario Interdisciplinario de Bibliología (SIB-IIB-UNAM). Since 2014 she is a corresponding researcher at the Instituto de Arte Americano e Investigaciones Estéticas (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and in 2017 she founded, and since then co-coordinates, the Red Latinoamericana de Cultura Gráfica. She is a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers (level 3) and delegate for Mexico of Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP). She has conducted research stays in numerous libraries such as the National Libraries of Argentina, Chile, Spain and the United Kingdom, and in collections such as the John Carter Brown Library, Newberry Library, Nettie Lee Benson (University of Austin) and Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, among others. Her lines of research and teaching revolve around the history of books, publishing, typography and visual culture in Mexico and Latin America; print culture in indigenous languages, and the relationship between design and gender. She is the author, co-author, compiler and editor of more than a dozen books.

Originally from Tlalnepantla, State of Mexico. D. in Arts and Design (UNAM), Master and Bachelor in Visual Arts by the same institution. Visual Artist. Feminist. Full-time professor-researcher at the Faculty of Arts, in Mexicali (UABC), where she founded the Colloquium of Art and Gender since 2018, and where she is general coordinator to date. She is a candidate for National Researcher (2020-2024) by the National System of Researchers (SNI). She currently directs the Art and Gender Archive of Baja California, in liaison with the Secretary of Culture of Baja California. In addition, she has more than 60 individual and collective, national and international exhibitions. She was coordinator of the book Arte y Género [electronic and printed resource]: Problemáticas Actuales desde una Visión Multidisciplinaria (2019), Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC); she was co-coordinator and author in the publications Archivo Vivo/a. Primer mapeo de Artistas Mujeres de Baja California, (2021), by Editorial La Rumorosa; Historia del Libro y la Cultura Escrita en México. Regional Perspectives. Volumen Norte (2022), published by the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes; and the book Arte, Género y Representación (2022), co-published by UABC and UAQ.

She holds a degree in Hispanic Literature from the University of Guadalajara, a master's degree in Mexican Literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a doctorate in History and Regional Studies from the University of Veracruz. She is currently a professor in the Faculty of Letters at the Universidad Veracruzana; editor in the Publications Department of the Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura and professor of Spanish as a foreign language in the international program of the University of Nebraska-Universidad Anáhuac, Xalapa campus. In the field of editorial management she was deputy manager of editorial content from 2017 to 2019 and editor of Humanities from 2007-2010, both positions at Fondo de Cultura Económica. She was deputy director of cultural projects at the then National Council for Culture and the Arts 2005-2007. She recently published the chapter “Mujeres y libros” in the book Mujeres editoras under the Editorial de la Universidad Veracruzana (2023); as well as several book chapters. She has coordinated with Enrique Florescano the book La música veracruzana (Government of the State of Veracruz/2015) and is author with Adolfo Castañón of the book Para leer a Juan José Arreola (CONACULTA, 2008). Her areas of interest are contemporary publishing, book history and Latin American literary studies.

Originally from Oaxaca, Oaxaca. Master in Design and Editorial Production by the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Graphic Communication Designer by the same institution. Editorial designer, with studies in typography, editing, rhetoric, semiotics and practice of reading and written production among young people. University professor in Graphic Design, Multimedia Design and Communication. He has participated in colloquiums and seminars on the history of books and publishing, as well as in historical studies on Porfirio Díaz and the Porfiriato. He exhibited individually “Tipo/grafías” at the Andrés Henestrosa Library, Oaxaca (2016). He designed and coordinated the teaching, training and typographic creation program “Zaachila Extended” within the innovation, art and design program “Proyecta” of the Oaxaca Design Center (2015). He is a Full Time Professor of the School of Design at the Universidad Anáhuac Oaxaca.

D. in Anthropology/Archaeology from Pennsylvania State University. Professor-Researcher, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado at Boulder. Specialist in Archaeology, Ethnohistory and Materials Sciences. Member of the National System of Researchers.

She is currently studying for a Master's Degree in Art History at the FFL, UNAM (2022- 2023). She has a degree in Restoration of Movable Goods from ENCRyM, INAH (1987) with a diploma in Appreciation and Literary Creation from Casa Lamm (1999). Since 1984 she has restored numerous archaeological, historical and artistic works, specializing in Mayan masks and funerary objects. She coordinated several research projects at INAH: Proyecto Máscaras Funerarias (2004-2012), Proyecto de investigación de la Máscara de Malinaltepec (2009), Las máscaras de piedra de Teotihuacan, México (2012) and Proyecto de Investigación del Códice Maya de México (2016-2018). During her work at INAH she was president of the Council of Conservation-Restoration of Movable and Immovable Monuments by Destination, INAH (2012). She was also curator of four traveling exhibitions with their respective catalogs: Faces of divinity. Mayan green stone mosaics (2009-2011), Mexican masks, veiled symbolisms (2014-2016), The flower in Mexican culture (2016-2018) and The Mayan Codex of Mexico, link, source and witness (2018-2019). She coordinated the academic book El Códice Maya de México, formerly Grolier, the foundation of the latter exhibition, in addition to other publications. She was awarded the INAH “Paul Coremans” Prize in 2003 and 2011 and the “Miguel Covarrubias” prize in 2005 and 2019.

He holds a PhD in Art History. He is a full time researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas de la UNAM, PRIDE D and level II in the SNI. He is the Coordinator of the Specialization, Master's and Doctorate Program in Art History at UNAM. Among other distinctions, he was awarded the Distinction Recognition National University for Young Academics 2013 in the area of Research in Humanities and the Research Award 2013 for young scientists awarded by the Mexican Academy of Sciences. His area of research is history, art history, epigraphy and icontextual studies of the ancient Maya, with biases towards grammatology and the study of the human body. His most recent book is Morada de dioses: los componentes anímicos del cuerpo humano entre los mayas del periodo Clásico (FCE-IIE, 2023), as well as approximately 120 other publications.

D. and Master in Art History from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She specializes in pre-Hispanic art, especially in the manuscripts of the Mesoamerican pictographic tradition, focusing on stylistic and manufacturing analysis, as well as the writing system. She is author and co-author of several articles and book chapters such as the volume Codices of the series Historia Ilustrada de México (2017); Nuevo comentario al Códice Vaticano B (VAT. LAT. 3773) (2020); Signos, letras y tipografías en América Latina (2019); El Códice Maya de México, antes Grolier (2018); Estilo y región en el arte mesoamericano (2017), among others. He teaches courses and lectures both in Mexico and Japan.

She holds a degree in History with a major in Anthropology of America from the Complutense University of Madrid, where she continued her graduate studies until she received her PhD in American History in 2016 with a thesis entitled “Juan Pío Pérez Bermón: vida y obra de un ilustrado yucateco del siglo XIX” (Juan Pío Pérez Bermón: life and work of a 19th century Yucatecan ilustrado). She was a fellow of the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (2016-2018) and since 2018 she has been working as a researcher at the Institute of Aesthetic Research of that university. Her area of research is the colonial Maya of the Yucatán peninsula and her most recent research revolves around the texts and images of the books of Chilam Balam.

D. in History from El Colegio de Michoacán; full time professor-researcher in the Bachelor's Degree in History of the Faculty of Anthropological Sciences of the UADY; member of the National System of Researchers with level 1; author of the work: La consolidación del clero secular en el obispado de Yucatán, siglo XVIII (2022) and of several articles in international, national and local magazines. Director of the project El Museo Móvil, for the dissemination and creation of historical awareness among citizens.

She holds a degree in Political Science and Public Administration from the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA). D. in History from the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS). In 2010 her master's thesis “El Yucatán de Zavala: sus primeros años” received the award for the best master's thesis in the International History Contest “Independencia y Revolución: Gestas de Identidad Nacional”, organized by the Government of the State of Mexico. In 2015 he won the Casa Chata Prize awarded by CIESAS for the best doctoral thesis under the title: “La imprenta en la península de Yucatán en el siglo XIX” (Printing in the Yucatan Peninsula in the 19th century). His main lines of research are the history of printing and written culture in the Yucatan Peninsula. Among his publications is the book, El Yucatán de Zavala: sus primeros años, Gobierno del Estado de México, 2012. In the book De Pérgamo a la nube, nuevos acercamientos y perspectivas a las edades del libro, edited by Godinas and Garone, she wrote the article: “La imprenta José Dolores Espinosa e hijos: ¿imprenta, librería o miscelánea? A bit of everything”, UNAM, 2017. She is currently in press La imprenta en la península de Yucatán en el siglo XIX. Since 2022 he has been working as a research assistant at CIESAS, Peninsular Unit.

Historian from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León; Master in Modern and Contemporary History (Instituto Mora) and PhD in History (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana). He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas (UNAM). He is a professor at the National School of Languages, Linguistics and Translation (UNAM). He is a member of Mexico's National System of Researchers. He is a member of the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Bibliology (SIB-IIB-UNAM). He has taught at the National School of Anthropology and History and the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences (UNAM). Winner of the FINANCIARTE 2011 contest, organized by the Council for Culture and the Arts of Nuevo León. He won the XII Israel Cavazos Garza Award for Research in History and Cultural Heritage. His areas of interest are the history of books, publishing and the press. He is the author of Imprenta, economía y cultura en el noreste de México: la empresa editorial de Desiderio Lagrange, 1874-1887 (CONARTE, 2017), as well as various articles and book chapters. He has coordinated and compiled collective works, including Las fronteras de las letras: Innovación-regulación de la cultura escrita. Pasado y presente (Ediciones del Ermitaño, 2022).

Mexican writer, researcher and teacher. She has a degree in Hispanic American Language and Literature and a Master's Degree in 20th Century Mexican Literature from the Autonomous University of Chiapas, UNACH. Her interests are philology, ecdotics and hermeneutics applied to Mexican and Chiapas literature. Her research focuses on Chiapas literature of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Spanish exiles in Chiapas and the cultural results of the relationship between these two cultures, the Ateneo de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas and the literary aspects of the Revista del Ateneo, the publication organ of the Ateneo de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas. She received a scholarship from the Programa de Estímulo a la Creación y Desarrollo Artístico PECDA for the critical edition of the work of Joaquín Vásquez Aguilar. She is a professor at the Faculty of Humanities C-VI of the UNACH and coordinator of the Bachelor's Degree in Hispanic American Language and Literature.

She has a degree in Design and Visual Communication from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a master's degree in Editorial Production from the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (UAEM). She has worked as an editorial designer for different clients and institutions. Currently, she is a Full-Time Research Professor at the Interdisciplinary Center for Research in Humanities (CIIHu), UAEM, and is pursuing a PhD in Arts and Design at the Faculty of Arts and Design (FAD), UNAM. Her interests, work and lines of research revolve around design and editorial production. Her doctoral research deals with typographic printing in Mexico in the XXI century, with which she intends to promote and enrich the practice of this ancient technique of graphic reproduction.

He holds a degree in Visual Communication Design from the School of Visual Arts of the Universidad Veracruzana (UV) and a master's degree in Editorial Production from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (UAEM). He works as a freelance graphic and editorial designer; he also carries out and collaborates in literary publishing projects and academic research. His lines of interest focus on the study of 20th century Veracruz literature, the implementation of the Freinet technique in Mexico and alternative publishing in the Mexican context.