Pol Popovic Karic

Pol Popovic Karic (born October 21, 1962) is a professor and research in Spanish, English and French literature at the Tec de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey. He has published and edited a number of books as well as articles for Mexican and international journals. His research work has been recognized with Level II membership in the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores and the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias.

Life and education Popovic Karic was born in Belgrade, during the period of Yugoslavia. He is currently married.

Career He has been a full-time professor at the Tec de Monterrey since 1997, with teaching specialties are literatures in English, French and Spanish. He has also taught literature and culture, European literature and 20th century literature.

Published works Popovic Karic is a researcher with the Cátedra de Investigación en Literatura Latinoamericana Contemporánea and has three main research specialties: analysis of literature (prose, poetry and theater), literary theory for the study of social relations and the portrayal contemporary society in Latin American literature. He considers the analysis of literature to affect the understanding of reality and how it also opens doors to new cultures, as well as enhances critical and analytic thinking.

His research has led to authorship of two books Conflictos y afectos en la literature Mexicana (2011) and Ironic Samuel Beckett (2006).

He is also co-editor on a series of books on Mexican authors including Luisa Valenzuela, Julio Cortázar, Rosario Castellanos, Mario Vargas Llosa, José Emilio Pacheco, Alfonso Reyes and Carlos Fuentes from 2002 to the present.

In addition, he has published over twenty-two articles in both Mexican and international publications, translated social, literary and scientific texts and is a freelance newspaper columnist.