PhD, Performance Studies and Cultural Anthropology, New York University;
MA, Anthropology, University of California at San Diego;
BA, Clinical Psychology, Pontifical Catholic University of Lima, Peru

My main interests focus on issues that, broadly speaking, encompass the relation between the cinema and the public sphere. In particular, I am studying the potential of documentary filmmaking and of feature films that deal with historical subjects, to generate a cultural memory, which actively participates in the power-relations that structure a globalized world. Thus, international relations, debates around transitional justice and “Truth and Reconciliation” and world cities as cultures of globalization are also central to my work.

World Cinema
Transnational Contemporary Cinema
Memory, History, and the Cinema
Truth and Reconciliation in the Media
Histories of Documentary Film
Women, War, and the Media
Latin American Film, Fiction, and Performance
Genres of Cultural Analysis
Introduction to Cultural Studies

Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts
65 West 11th Street
New York, NY  10011

Memory and the cinema; The role of the cinema in the creation of cultural memory; Documentary filmmaking as a medium for articulating trans-personal history, collective traumata and political struggles for rights and recognition; World cities and the cultures of globalization.