Dr. Fernando Fabio Sánchez received his Ph.D. from University of Colorado at Boulder. He specializes in 19th-, 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American literature, culture, and film, with an emphasis on Mexico. He teaches courses on this area and related subjects both at the undergraduate and graduate levels, at Portland State University.
His research focuses on the interplay between modernity and modes of representation in literature, painting, photography, film, and mass media. His book, Artful Assassins: Murder as Art in Modern Mexico (Vanderbilt University Press, 2010), offers a panoramic overview of the evolution of 20th-century Mexican arts and letters, nationalism, and the idea of modernity in Mexico by studying murder and assassination as literary and cinematographic motifs. He has also edited (with Gerardo García Muñoz) La luz y la guerra: el cine de la Revolución Mexicana (Light and War: The Cinema of the Mexican Revolution), a collection of critical essays that analyses the representation of the Mexican war of 1910 on the films produced throughout 1911-2010. The book has been published by the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA), Mexico City, in 2010.
He is presently working on a new project linked to Mexican modernity. He is researching on the relationship between positivist thought, the production of literary and visual artifacts, and the formation of the Mexican Republic after the War of Reform in 1857 and during the Porfirian era. Concurrently to this project, he is guest editing the 2010 issue of The Colorado Review of Hispanic Studies (Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Colorado at Boulder) on the representation of History in Iberian and Latin American film.
He is also part of the organizing committee of Cine-Lit, a biannual conference devoted to literature and film that takes place in Portland, Oregon.
Professor Sánchez has also published fiction and poetry.
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