Professor José Hernándes Riwes Cruz has a degree in Modern English Language and Literature with a specialization in literary criticism applied to pop music and thematology and a Master's in Comparative Literature with a specialization in cultural studies on literature and film from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has a postgraduate degree in Cultural Policies and Cultural Management from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) and studies in musicology at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

Research Professor in the Division of Humanities at the UAM Azcapotzalco Campus and Coordinator of Foreign Languages, responsible for the research seminar: Entreveramientos: Semiotics, Literature, and Music, curator of the Mexican Rock Repository at the same institution. His academic project focuses on the study of pop culture with an emphasis on the Dark Scene in Mexico City.

He has participated in several national and international congresses, colloquiums, seminars, and conservatories as a lecturer or speaker. He has been part of several areas, seminars, and national and international research groups related to cultural, ethnomusical, cinematographic, or graphic novel studies.

He has published more than 20 academic articles and the essay books La Figura de Small-town America en el cine y la literatura a través de la oscuridad, (UAM Azcapotzalco Campus, 2012), Jumping Someone Else's Train Cuando la ciudad de México se vestitió de negro (Scriptoria, 2021), Jumping Someone Else's Train REMIX Una reflexión sobre el llamado post-punk mexicano, (Venas Rotas Discos, 2022), Vamos a jugar a Londres La Escena Oscura del Rock Mexicano al Sur del DF en los 80s (Let's Play London The Dark Scene of Mexican Rock in the South of Mexico City in the 80s).

He was the coordinator of the Coordination of Foreign Language Studies at UAM Azcapotzalco Campus from 2017 to 2022 and Head of the Cultural Activities Section from 2009 to 2013. He is a member of the commission of cultural activities in the organizing committee of the Librofest of the same unit; co-coordinator of Red Todos los Sonidos A. C. (RETOS A. C.); collaborator in cultural management in Discos Intolerancia; and in La Cocina Rock. He is a founding member of the research group Colectiva-Mente, for Mexican rock.

In 1995 he formed Hueco, one of the most important rock groups of the dark Mexican scene, and in 2007 The Dragulas, a seminal Tecno-Cabaret group of the Mexi-pop scene. He was a member of the logistics committee of the Sepriente Sobre Ruedas collective and of La Orden del Cister, a collective of the Mexican dark scene.

He has collaborated in newspapers and magazines such as Excelsior, Código 06140, Revista Generación, Warp Magazine, and Depósito Sonoro, among others, with articles on film, music, and pop culture in general.