Professor Leonardo Martínez Carrizales has a degree in Communication Sciences from the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), a master's degree in Mexican Literature and a Ph.D. in Literature (Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, UNAM). Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Humanities at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Azcapotzalco Campus.

At this institution, he is a member of the faculty of the Graduate Program in Historiography and the Master's Program in Contemporary Mexican Literature. His most recent book is "Tribunos letrados. Aproximaciones al orden de la cultura letrada en el México del siglo XIX" (UAM, 2017). He is a member of the National System of Researchers. He was also a professor at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the UNAM between 1992 and 2008.

He is the author, among other books, of "Juan Rulfo. Los caminos de la fama pública". "Juan Rulfo before the literary-journalistic criticism of Mexico". "Una antología" (1998); "La sal de los enfermos". "Fall and convalescence of Alfonso Reyes". Paris 1913-1914 (2001); "Alfonso Reyes-Enrique González Martínez, El tiempo de los patriarcas. Epistolario" 1909-1952 [study, edition and notes] (2002); "El recurso de la tradición. Jaime Torres Bodet before Rubén Darío and modernism" (2006).

His lines of research include, in addition to the literate minorities of independent Mexico, literary criticism and history, the history of rhetoric in Mexico, the history of intellectuals (19th and 20th centuries), the narratives of Mexico's social order (19th and 20th centuries), Alfonso Reyes, the Revista Mexicana de Literatura, history and application of university literacy from the perspective of discourse and rhetoric.