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Languages and Cultures

Iliana Pagán-Teitelbaum

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Languages and Cultures

Address:
224 Mitchell Hall
West Chester, PA 19383


Phone: 610-436-2700
Fax: 610-436-3048


Dr. Cristóbal Cardemil-Krause, Department Chair

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Iliana Pagán-Teitelbaum

  • Graduate Coordinator
  • Assistant Professor of Languages
  • Ph.D., Harvard University
  • M.A., Harvard University
  • B.A., University of Puerto Rico

Research Interests

  • Ethics and Aesthetics of Violence and Inequality
  • Contemporary Latin American Film and Literature
  • Cinema Studies
  • Cultural Studies
  • Indigenous Studies
  • Caribbean Studies
  • Community Media

Courses Taught

  • ESP 309 Latin America on Film
  • SPA 456/556 Narratives of Exclusion in Latin American Cinema
  • SPA 456/556 Adaptation: From Literature to Film
  • SPA 456/556 Latin American Short Story
  • SPA 313 América Latina en el Cine
  • SPA 201 Intermediate Spanish I
  • SPA 101-102 Beginner Spanish I & II
  • YES 301 Seminar in Youth-led Media and Inquiry

Recent Publications

Book Chapters

  • "Distorsión en los Andes: violencia cultural y exclusión en el cine contemporáneo." Cine andino: estudios y testimonios. Ed. Julio Noriega and Javier Julián Morales Mena. Galesburg, IL and Lima: Knox College P-UNMSM-Pakarina Ediciones, 2015.
  • "Depiction or Erasure? Violence and Trauma in Contemporary Peruvian Film." Interrogating Trauma: Collective Suffering in Global Arts and Media. Ed. Mick Broderick and Antonio Traverso. London: Routledge, 2011. 161-177.

Journal Articles

  • “Espejo eurocéntrico: por una estética de la equidad en el discurso audiovisual sobre la mujer indígena y la tecnología.” Ojo que piensa. Revista de cine iberoamericano 14 (2017): 20-43.
  • "Desestabilizar la violencia: exclusión y resistencia narrativa en Brasil y República Dominicana" Abehache 7: 2 (2014): 178-191.
  • "Sueños malditos: diáspora y globalización violentas en la narrativa dominicana" Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language, and Culture. Special Issue: Agency and Intervention in Caribbean Contexts. I & II (2013-2014).
  • "Neofavela filmada: violencia y resistencia en la ciudad partida de Cidade de Deus" Badebec: Revista del Centro de Estudios de Teoría y Crítica Literaria 4 (Mar. 2013): 116-146.
  • "Glamour in the Andes: Indigenous Women in Peruvian Cinema" Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Journal 7.1 (Mar. 2012): 71-93.
  • "Depiction or Erasure? Violence and Trauma in Contemporary Peruvian Film" Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies24.1 (Feb. 2010): 159-175.
  • "El glamour en los Andes: la representación de la mujer indígena migrante en el cine peruano" Revista Chilena de Antropología Visual12.2 (2008): 1-30; revised version reprinted in Crónicas Urbanas 14 (2009): 159-174.
  • "Arsenales de odio: violencia invisible en 'O Cobrador' de Rubem Fonseca" El hablador 4 (2004): 76-81.

Global Hispanic Film Festival at WCU

  • Founding director.
  • The Global Hispanic Film Festival at WCU presents contemporary films about the realities of the Hispanic world in Latin America, Spain, North Africa & Latinos/as in the US every Fall during Hispanic Heritage Month. Free and open to the public! All films are subtitled. #cineWCU
  • For more information: https://www.facebook.com/cinewcu

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