María de la Cruz Castro Ricalde

María de la Cruz de Fátima Castro Ricalde is a Mexican writer, professor and researcher with the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Studies.

She has worked at the Toluca Campus of the institution since 1990, and currently is the coordinator of the communications and humanities department. She teaches undergraduate courses in humanistic studies as well as administration at the masters level. She has been a guest lecturer in France, Canada, the United States, Germany and in various parts of Mexico. her books include Visión de Reyes (1990), El espacio deshabitado. Ensayos sobre teoría de arte, lingüística y literatura (1991), El discurso de los mundos posibles (1990), La palabra sin fronteras. Contemporaneidad de Alfonso Reyes (1993), Razón y Placer : Alfonso Reyes (1994) Ficción, narración y polifonía. El universo narrativo de Sergio Pitol (2000)and El cine mexicano se impone. Mercados transnacionales y penetración cultural en la edad dorada, with M. Castro and Robert Irwin McKee (2011), and she has edited seven books including Enfoques alternativos en la educación superior (2007), Guadalupe Dueñas. Después del silencio (2010) and Narradoras mexicanas y argentinas siglos XX-XXI. Antología crítica (2011). She is also a member of Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur les Mondes Ibériques Contemporains in France.