Biography

(Mexico City., 1978)

I studied Philosophy and Social Sciences, but when I graduated and realized I didn’t know what to do as a job, I became a journalist. I have been reporter for the Público-Milenio newspaper and chief-editor in Magis Magazine for eight years.

I’m the author of the novel Cobra’s Fall (Tusquets, 2016), of the short-story collection Does Anyone Care about the Dust at Hemingway’s House? (San Luis Potosí Fine Arts Award for Short Story 2013) and co-writer of the feature documentary film Portraits of a Search, directed by Alicia Calderón, about the mothers looking for their disappeared children during mexican drug wars.

I hold a scholarship by the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) to complete my PhD with an ethnographic research about the practices of spanish-speaking booktubers (literary videobloguers). I have my own Youtube channel:  youtube.com/channel/UCQ9RefQSFt8kDnq9VmCNccg and personal blog. jmtomasena.com

Research lines

- Literary reception in the digital age

- Digital culture

- Narrative analysis

- Digital Ethnography

- Cultual Studies

- History of Reading and Publishing