Iliana Pagán-Teitelbaum
- 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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