Luis Madrigal is a teacher, writer, and cultural critic specializing in film studies and Latin American literature. His film criticism appears regularly in Nexos, one of Mexico's leading publications for politics and culture. He is a two-time finalist for Mexico's national Film Criticism Award from the National Film Archives and was selected for the New York Film Festival's Critics Academy in 2017. As a curator, he organized the retrospective series "Mexican Romance" at Docfilms, the student-run film society at the University of Chicago, where he earned his PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures in 2024. He previously received his MFA in Creative Writing from New York University in 2018.
His writing has been recognized with the George Watt Prize (ALBA, 2022) and the Young Writers' Essay Award (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2016). Recent honors include being shortlisted for Literal’s International Prize for Latin American Voices (2024), and the Latin American Literature Today Literary Essay Award (2023).
