Editorial Board / Comité Editorial

Bridget Franco (Project Director), College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA)

Bridget Franco is Professor in the Spanish Department and co-director of the Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies program at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California Irvine and her M.A. from the University of Notre Dame. Her teaching and research interests include memory and resistance in Southern Cone narrative and film, as well as digital and experiential pedagogies related to Latin American studies. She founded and directs Cinegogía, and is also the creator of Cineglos, a Spanish-language cinematographic digital glossary with moving image video clips. Her published work can be found in Hispania, Diálogo, Chasqui, and Revista Iberoamericana, in addition to contributions to several edited volumes, including Cinematic Landscape and Emerging Identities in Contemporary Latin American Film (2024).

Dania Abreu-Torres, Trinity University (San Antonio, TX)

Dania Abreu-Torres is an Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. After completing her B.A. in Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies at the University of Puerto Rico in Rio Piedras, she received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Florida in Gainesville. Her research focuses on the analysis of racial and gender discourses in literature and film related to national identity in the Caribbean and Latin America. Her published work can be found in Centro Journal, Transmodernity, and A Contracorriente. She recently published a co-authored volume dealing with underrepresented films from the Caribbean and Latin America, centered on women and LGBTQ themes, titled Latinidad and Film: Queer and Feminist Cinema in the Americas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).  

Claudia Arteaga, Scripps College (Claremont, CA)

Claudia Arteaga is an Associate Professor of Spanish, Latin American, and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures and a faculty of the Native American/Indigenous Studies Minor at Scripps College in Claremont, California. Her research interests focus on issues of representation and self-representation about/by indigenous peoples in Peru and Bolivia through video and film, and Quechua poetry written by women. Dr. Arteaga's first book project studies cases of communitarian film development in Peru. She has published articles about films, poetry, Indigenous testimony, and politics in Peru.

Kamahra Ewing, University of Kentucky (Lexington, KY)

Kamahra Ewing is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and the African American and Africana Studies Program at the University of Kentucky. She received her academic training at Michigan State University, with a Ph.D. in African American and African Studies, M.A. in American Studies, and B.A. in both Social Relations and Spanish. Her teaching and research interests include Black Global Studies, Media/Film Studies, Latin American Studies, Global South Studies, and Reception Studies. Her current book project and articles examine Nollywood audience reception within diverse Africana communities in Brazil, Jamaica, and the United Kingdom.

Leandro González, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Leandro González is a researcher and adjunct professor at the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento (UNGS), where he directs the Bachelor's Degree in Communication. In addition, he is a researcher at CONICET. In 2021, González received his PhD in Social Sciences (Universidad de Buenos Aires) with a thesis on the internationalization policies of Argentine cinema, which led to his book El (nuevo) devenir global del cine argentino. Políticas y mercados externos. González is also the co-editor of Cines latinoamericanos en circulación: en busca del público perdido [Latin American cinemas in circulation: in search of the lost audience], among other publications. He is currently researching the development of the audiovisual platform market and regulatory policies in Latin America.  

HONORARY FOUNDING BOARD MEMBERS

Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez, Amherst College (2016-2022)
Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky, University of Chicago (2016-2018)
Manuel Medina, University of Louisville (2016-2018)
Laura Podalsky, The Ohio State University (2016-2018)

FORMER BOARD MEMBERS

Reighan Gillam, Dartmouth College (2020-2024)
Michelle L. Farrell, Fairfield University (2019-2023)
Moisés Park, Baylor University (2019-2020)
Jeffrey Middents, American University (2018-2024)