Professor Alfonso Macedo Rodríguez, born in Pachuca, Mexico, 1977, holds a Ph.D. in Literary Theory from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus, with the thesis Al margen: literatura fantástica y función social en la narrativa de Ricardo Piglia. He has published research articles and book chapters on the work of Piglia, Juan José Saer, Alberto Chimal, Manuel Puig, José Emilio Pacheco, Juan José Arreola, Sergio Pitol, Alfonso Reyes and Julio Cortázar in the journals Latinoamérica. Revista de estudios latinoamericanos, Rassegna iberistica, Poligramas. Revista de la Escuela de Estudios Literarios (Santiago de Cali), Pirandante (UATx), Signos literarios, Graffylia, Iztapalapa, Xihmai, etc., and essays on Philip K. Dick, Witold Gombrowicz and the Serie del Recienvenido in La Gaceta del Fondo de Cultura Económica, Casa del Tiempo and Crítica. Revista literaria.

Since April 2020, he has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the UAM Iztapalapa Campus.

He has been a professor of literature and linguistics since 2001 at various institutions, such as the Universidad La Salle, Pachuca, and the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana.

He is a member of the National System of Researchers of CONACYT, level I. Some of his research projects focus on Argentine narrative (Piglia, Saer, and others) and the intertextual relations between literature and television series.