Education

Since 04/2024	PhD Candidate, International Research Training Group, ‘Temporalities of future’
Since 08/2021	PhD Candidate, Center of Historical Studies, El Colegio de México
08/2015-08/2017	Master of Arts in History, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
08/2006-08/2010	Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo

 

Work Experience

Since 04/2024	Researcher, International Research Training Group ‘Temporalities of Future’
08/2017-08/2021	Professor, Universidad Latina de América, Morelia

Project: In Praise of Doubt: Towards an Intellectual History of Skepticism in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (1920-1940)

Supervisor: Dr. Guillermo Zermeño Padilla, El Colegio de México

The Mexican Revolution was a historical movement with profound cultural repercussions. Not only did it inaugurate a new understanding of the country’s history, reinterpreting the indigenous or Hispanic past, but it also solidified a progressive intellectual institutionalization. It simultaneously created a political rhetoric that reached educational, literary, pictorial, and historiographical strata. In this national redefinition, Mexican intellectuals played a fundamental and unavoidable role: spreading the ‘good news’ of the Mexican Revolution to the most remote corners of the country, as well as projecting a modernizing and positive image abroad. It was necessary to materialize the utopias of the armed movement.

However, the political and intellectual history of the Mexican Revolution often overlooks the skeptical writers or disillusioned offspring of the period, under the premise that they played a negative, nihilistic, destructive role by questioning the political and cultural dogmas of the Revolution. This skeptical stance was represented primarily by some members of the generation known as the Contemporáneos (1920-1932), including Jorge Cuesta, Xavier Villaurrutia, Samuel Ramos, Antonieta Rivas Mercado, and Salvador Novo, but also by others of their intellectual predecessors and successors. Thus the purpose of my research is to demonstrate how the substrate of skeptical presuppositions of these writers contributed greatly to a reformulation of the figure of the intellectual in Mexico, as well as to a rethinking of the concepts to understand national culture and history.

Books:

Echevarría Cázares, Héctor Andrés (2023), Litorales del tiempo. Reflexiones sobre la historia y las bifurcaciones del conocimiento, Morelia: Universidad Latina de América, ISBN: 978-607-703-024-9.

Echevarría Cázares, Héctor Andrés (2013), Xavier Villaurrutia: poesía, nostalgia y finitud, Morelia: Secretaría de Cultura, ISBN: 978-607-8201-59-4.

Articles:

Echevarría Cázares, Héctor Andrés (2020), “Proyección cultural de la Revolución mexicana en el extranjero: estereotipos y realidades“, en Revista argentina de humanidades y ciencias sociales, volumen 18, número 8.