Carolina Rueda University of Oklahoma | Film and Media Studies Program 640 Parrington Oval Wallace Old Science Hall, Room 341 | Norman, Oklahoma 73019 | [email protected] | cell: (412) 398-3196 Updated: May 2019
EDUCATION Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultural Studies – Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures. University of Pittsburgh, November, 2012. Area of specialization: Contemporary Latin American cinema
Master of Arts in Spanish – Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, 2007.
B.A in Film and Video Production (with distinction) – University of Oklahoma, School of Art and Art History, 1992.
Main areas of academic interest: Contemporary Latin American cinema; Politics and aesthetics in urban world cinema; Transnational cinema.
Other research and teaching interests: Film history; Theory and practice of film editing/montage. Interdisciplinary approaches to world cinema.
EMPLOYMENT Teaching Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) Fall 2014–Present Film and Media Studies Program, University of Oklahoma
Assistant Professor (Ranked Term Appointment) Fall 2013–Sp. 2014 Film and Media Studies Program, University of Oklahoma
Lecturer (Renewable Term Appointment) Fall 2011–Sp. 2013 Film and Media Studies Program, University of Oklahoma
Courses taught: FMS 4013 Women Directors in World Cinema (Senior Seminar) Fall 2017 FMS 3810 Editing: History, Theory and Practice Fall 2011–2017; Sp. 2015, Sp. 2017. Sp. 2017, Sp. 2018, Fall 2018, Sp. 2019 FMS 4013 Dystopian and Post-Apocalypse World Cinema (Senior Seminar) Fall 2014, Sp. 2016, Fall 2018 IAS 3003 Transnational Cinema, (OU-Puebla, Mexico) Fall 2015 FMS 2013 Film History and Criticism 1960-Present Sp. 2015, Sp. 2018, Sp. 2019 FMS 3243 Hispanic Cinema Sp. 2012, Sp. 2014, Fall 2016, Sp. 2019 FMS 3243 Hispanic Cinema (OU-Puebla, Mexico) Fall 2015, Sp. 2016 FMS 3233 Filmmakers Up Close: Iñárritu, Del Toro, Cuarón Sp. 2013 FMS 2033 Writing about Film Fall 2011–Sp. 2014 FMS 2013 Film History and Criticism to 1945 Fall 2011 Student independent studies 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019 Independent studies for Honors students Sp. 2015 Student independent studies, OU-Puebla, Mexico Fall 2015, Sp. 2016 Student internships Sp. 2013–Fall 2017, Sp. 2018, Fall 2018, Sp. 2019
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Spanish Courses: Spanish Teaching Fellow Fall 2008–Sp. 2010 Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh Courses taught: Intermediate Spanish 0003 Sp. 2010 Spanish 0002 Fall 2008, Sp. 2009, Summer 2009
Spanish Teaching Assistant Fall 2005–Sp. 2007 Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati Courses taught: Spanish 101 Fall 2005, Summer 2006–2007 Spanish 102 & 103 for Honors students Sp. 2006 Spanish 102 & 103 Fall 2005
RESEARCH Book Ciudad y fantasmagoría. Dimensiones de la mirada en el cine urbano de Latinoamérica del siglo XXI (City and Phantasmagoria: Dimensions of ‘Seeing’ in the Latin American Urban Cinema of the Twenty-first Century). Published by Editorial Cuarto Propio, Santiago de Chile. May 2019.
Articles in academic journals “The everlasting Sleep Dealer: Alex Rivera’s visionary mind and fantasy nightmares in present times.” Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas, vol. 14, no. 3, 2017, p. 333–348.
“Memory, Trauma, and Phantasmagoria in Claudia Llosa's La teta asustada.” Hispania, Johns Hopkins University, vol. 98, no. 3, 2015, p. 442-451. (Special Issue on the Scholarship of Film and Film Studies).
“Mise en abyme, parodia y violencia en La Ultima Cena de Tomás Gutiérrez Alea.” Apuntes Hispánicos vol. 9, 2008, p. 17-26.
Book chapters “Bordering” Claudia Llosa: Crossings and Radical Shifts Between Madeinusa, Loxoro, and Aloft. To be published in Peruvian Cinema in the Twenty First Century: Dynamic and Unstable Grounds (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
“Tania Hermida’s Qué tan lejos: Bending Conventions On The Road to Cuenca.” The Latin American Road Movie. US: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016, p. 137–153.
“Carlos Bolado’s Bajo California: Crossing Borders and Dislocating the Western Tradition.” The Western in the Global South, New York: Routledge, 2015, p. 213–32.
Articles in magazines “Aesthetics of Dystopia: Blindness from Novel to Film.” World Literature Today, May 2015, p. 12–15.
“Exceso y narco–posmodernidad en el cine: El Colombian dream – El sueño de todos.” Revista Kinetoscopio, Junio/Agosto, 2008, p. 30–36.
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Article Reviewer for Hispania. Johns Hopkins University “From Toxic Masculinities to Survival of the Kindest in Recent Uruguayan Cinema.” (2019) “Lenguaje, dolor y musicalidad: la estética del duelo en La teta asustada. Una lectura desde Walter Benjamin.” (2017) “Simulacrum vs. Coming of Age in Larraín's No and Its Source, ‘El Plebiscito.’” (2014) Revista Laboratorio. Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile. “La sombra del cine en la poética baudelairiana.” (2014) International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics. University of Vienna “New Ecuadorean Cinema: Contemporary Issues in Small Cinemas.” (2016) Imagofagia. Argentine Association for the Studies of Film and Audiovisual Works “La Venezuela rural tradicional según la Unidad Fílmica Shell.” (2018)
CREATIVE ACTIVITY (Film and media production) Film Oklahoma Mon Amour. Feature film. Director, editor. Mexico, USA, 65 min. 2016–Ongoing The project involves students from the University of Oklahoma: Film and Media Studies Department, the School of Journalism, and OU-Puebla (Mexico). The project has received funding from the College of Arts and Sciences, the Film and Media Studies Department, and the College of International Studies. To be released in 2021.
CONFERENCES & PRESENTATIONS
“Desierto (Jonás Cuarón) and Roma (Alfonso Cuarón). Film (and family) Tradition and New Transnationalism in Mexican Film.” SCOLAS 2019 (The Southwest Council of Latin American Studies), San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, March 2019.
“Ethics, forms of cinematic representation, and Academia. Who is speaking and for whom?” SCMS 2019 (Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference). Panel: Ethics, Representational Strategies and Power Dynamics: New Readings of Film Cultures from Latin America and the U.S. Panel sponsored by the SCMS Latino Caucus. Seattle, Washington, March 2019.
IILI Congress (Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana). “Encuentro de Bogotá: intersecciones, desacuerdos, pertenencias.” Attended. Recorded interview with Colombian author Alberto Salcedo Ramos. Produced video for LALT (Latin American Literature Today). Bogotá, Colombia, July 2018.
“Revisitaciones críticas: Últimos días de la historia de Roberto Brodsky y Machuca de Andrés Wood.” LASA 2018 (Latin American Studies Association International Congress). Panel: Recuperaciones y reinstalaciones topológico-políticas en las ficciones de Raúl Ruiz, Roberto Brodsky y García París. Barcelona, Spain, May 2018.
“Reexamining the ‘unfaithfulness’ to Chilean cinema of director Alicia Scherson and the ‘odd’ visual starkness of her film Il futuro (2013).” SCMS 2018 (Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference). Panel: Politics and Visualities of Place and Space: Global Mediations in Contemporary Latin American Narrative and Documentary Film. Toronto, Canada, March 2018.
3 Chair of panel “Honoring the Colleague, the Mentor, the Human Being.” International Symposium “John Beverley: The Urgency of Latin Americanism in Times of Conflictive Globalization. University of Pittsburgh, March 2018.
"Alicia Scherson’s Il futuro: Visual Representation of Urban Spaces and Subjectivities Beyond Latin America.” Latin American Women’s Filmmaking Conference, 2017. Hosted by the Institute of Latin American Studies of the University of London.
“Desierto’s Menace at the Border Meets the Everlasting Sleep Dealer.” LASA 2017 (Latin American Studies Association International Congress). Lima, Peru. Panel: New Approaches to Transnational Mexican Cinema.
“Piercing the City: Shapes of Trauma, Affection, and Survival in Iñárritu’s Biutiful.” SCMS 2017 (Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference). Chicago, Il.
“Open Doors, So Far: Uncanny premonitions in Alex Rivera´s Sleep Dealer.” Hispania 2016 AATSP Conference. Miami, Fl.
“Tania Hermida’s Qué tan lejos: Bending Conventions On The Road to Cuenca.” LASA 2015 (Latin American Studies Association International Congress). San Juan, Puerto Rico. Panel: Marginality, Precariousness, and Exclusion: the Latin American Road Movie.
“Testimony, Memory, and Phantasmagoria in Claudia Llosa’s La teta asustada. SCMS 2014 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Seattle, WA. Panel: Historicity, memory, and new aesthetics of transgression: a re-interpretation of cinematic objects in Latin American cinema.
“La función estético-experimental del cine ‘de la calle’: Ronda nocturna y La sociedad del semáforo.” LASA 2014 (Latin American Studies Association International Congress). Chicago, Il.
“La paradoja del héroe en dos narrativas (literaria y fílmica) del siglo XX: Burguesía y descolonización en José Eustasio Rivera y Werner Herzog”. Congreso internacional de literatura y cine. Universidad de los Andes, Santiago de Chile, 2013.
Invited Speaker. “Latin American Cinema in the New Millennium: Phantasmagoria, Crisis, and the Urban Space.” Center for the Americas. University of Oklahoma, 2012.
“La ciudad sitiada: huellas de un fallido proyecto civilizatorio.” JALLA 2012 Conference. Universidad del Valle. Cali, Colombia, 2012.
“Ricardo Larraín’s cinematography: Exile and Survival in the Midst of Political and Natural Forces.” SCMLA 2011 Conference. Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Recurrent presentations at the “Amigos del cine latinoamericano” film series. University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2007 – Sp. 2010.
Invited Speaker. “Is Co–Production here to stay? Visions of Latin American Cinema after Amores perros.” Pittsburgh Film Colloquium (Film Studies Program), University of Pittsburgh, 2009.
“Deseo, exceso y narco–posmodernidad en El Colombian Dream.” Geographical Imaginaries and Hispanic Film. Graduate Student Conference. Tulane University, 2008.
4 “El reverso de la derrota en el cine latinoamericano: La ciénaga.” 32nd Colloquium on Literature and Film. Graduate Student Conference. West Virginia University, 2008.
La sombra del caminante (Colombia, 2005). “(des)articulaciones” Graduate student conference. Department of Hispanic Languages & Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, 2007.
“Mise en abyme, parodia y violencia en La última cena.” XXXII Congreso anual de literaturas hispánicas. Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2006.
“La puesta en escena en La última cena.” Romance Languages and Literatures Conference, University of Cincinnati, 2006.
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, GRANTS University of Oklahoma Presidential International Travel Fellowship. To travel to San Miguel Spring 2019 de Allende, Mexico to the SCOLAS 2019 Conference
Presidential International Travel Fellowship. To travel to Lima, Peru to the LASA 2017 Congress Spring 2017
Grant from the College of International Studies (University of Oklahoma) to my feature film Oklahoma Mon Amour Spring 2017
Office of the Vice President of Research. Research Council –Faculty Investment Program (FIP) Award Fall 2016
College of Arts and Sciences Junior Faculty Summer Fellowship 2012, 2013, 2016
College or Arts and Sciences Travel Awards Fall 2013, Sp. 2014, Sp. 2015, Sp. 2016, Summer 2016
University of Pittsburgh, College of Arts and Sciences Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship 2010–2011 Outstanding Honors Students Award Sp. 2011 Graduate Student Fellowship 2007–2008
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures Teaching Fellowship 2008–2010 Summer Research Scholarship Sp. 2008 Graduate Student Association Travel Award Fall 2008 Conference Travel Award Fall 2007
University of Pittsburgh, Center for Latin American Studies Cole and Marty Blasier Award, in recognition for the coordination of the “Amigos del cine latinoamericano” film series. Sp. 2009 Center for Latin American Studies Travel Award Fall 2008
University of Cincinnati Outstanding M.A. Student Award Sp. 2007 Graduate Teaching Assistantship 2005–2007 Taft Travel Award Fall 2006
5 Graduate Student Governance Association Travel Award Fall 2006 Taft Travel Award Sp. 2006 Graduate Student Governance Association Travel Award Sp. 2006
University of Oklahoma Graduate Assistantship, University of Oklahoma, School of Art Sp. 1991 Dean’s Honor Roll Placement, University of Oklahoma Sp. 1990
Film and Media Awards LatinEyes (TV program) Emmy Award: “Best Cultural Television Program.” 2006 Emmy Award nominations: “Best Cultural Television Program.” 2003, 05, 07, 08 Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Award. LatinEyes was voted “Best New Cultural Show” for the San Francisco Bay Area Hispanic community. San Francisco, CA. 2000
Feature Film Presentations and Awards Visitas (Feature film) International Film Festivals Official Selection: Festival du Cinéma de Bruxelles. Brussels, Belgium 2007 Festival internacional de cine y video de Cartagena. Colombia 2007 Festival de cine de Granada. Granada, Spain 2006 Toronto Independent Film Festival. Toronto, Canada 2006 United States Premiere: Cine Las Americas. Austin, Texas 2006 Chicago Latino Film Festival. Chicago, Illinois 2006 European Premiere: Fribourg Int’l Film Festival. Fribourg, Switzerland 2006 World Premiere: Festival des Films du Monde. Montreal, Canada 2005 Colombian Ministry of Culture Film Award (Proimágenes), received for the participation at the Fribourg International Film Festival (Switwerland) 2006
SERVICE Departmental. Film and Media Studies Department, University of Oklahoma Attendee. Career Exploration Fair (associated with the English for Leadership and Civil Engagement Camp for Oklahoma City Public High School). Promotion of the Film and Media Studies Department to prospect students. Summer 2019 Sooner Saturday Sp. 2019 Faculty Marshal Graduation Ceremony Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Sp. 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Sp. 2019 Native Crossroads Film Festival Panelist Sp. 2018 Student Internship Coordinator Fall 2016–Spring 2018 Technology Committee member 2012–2019 Juror. RedBud Film Festival 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 Juror. The Ned Hockman Filmmaking Award 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018 Juror in the selection of films for the Clermont–Ferrand International Short Film Festival. 2012–2018 Advisor. Graduate student proposals for FMS students 2016–ongoing Invitation of Guatemalan filmmaker Luis Argueta to my editing class Fall 2016 Promotion of FMS to a group of 85+ high school students from Tulsa Public High schools, Midwest City and Carl Albert High School. Fall 2016 Supervisor, Camera operator, Editor. Student film Interlude. Puebla, Mexico. Fall 2015 Coordinator. Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival participation,
6 including traveling with students to Clermont-Ferrand. Fall 2014–Sp. 2015 Course and Curriculum Committee member. Fall 2011–Sp. 2015 Committee member and panel moderator. Second Annual Society for Cinema & Media Studies Undergraduate Conference (U-SCMS). Sp. 2014 Strategic Planning Committee member. Fall 2012, 2013
University of Oklahoma Reviewer. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Summer 2019 Stipend applications. Involvement with invitation of documentary filmmaker Margarita Martinez Sp. 2019 Ph.D. Committee Member. Student Esther Andres Montecatini. Fall 2018-ongoing Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, University of Oklahoma. Panel member at the 2018 Research Institute for STEM Education (RISE). Fall 2018 Conference. Panel: “How to Pay for Graduate School.” University of Oklahoma. Guest speaker. Film Paloma de papel. Peruvian Student Association Week. Fall 2018 University of Oklahoma. Juror for the Campus Activity Council (CAC) Student Film Festival. Spring 2018 Reviewer. 2018 Presidential International Travel Fellowship applications (PITF). Spring 2018 OU-Puebla. Promotional activities (in Puebla, Mexico). Fall 2015, Sp. 2016 Orientation meetings, campus tours; Creation of promotional videos OU-Puebla. Promotional activities (at OU). Sp. 2015–Fall 2017 Screening moderator documentary Granito (2011) Center for Social Justice, University of Oklahoma. Sp. 2015 Film presenter – Nostalgia de la luz (Chile, 2010) The Center for Social Justice & The Center for the Americas, Univ. of Oklahoma. Fall 2014 Film presenter – Infancia clandestina (Argentina, 2011) Puterbaugh Festival. World Literature Today. University of Oklahoma. Sp. 2014 Film presenter – Música campesina (Chile, 2011) University of Oklahoma. Fall 2013 `Committee member and film discussant – Center for the Americas Symposium, University of Oklahoma. Sp. 2013 Cover designer – Bolivian Studies Journal Volumes 2009-11 and 2012-14, University of Pittsburgh. Sp. 2009, Sp. 2013 Film presenter – Paraíso Travel (Colombia, 2008), COLSA, University of Oklahoma. Fall 2013 Film presenter – La cara oculta (Colombia, 2011), COLSA, University of Oklahoma. Fall 2012 Film presenter – La estrategia del caracol (Colombia, 1993), COLSA, University of Oklahoma. Fall 2011
Service to the field Radio interview with Jenny Rodriguez about my book in “Crisol de Culturas”. Universidad Nacional de Colombia Spring 2019 Juror and panelist of the 2018 Norman Film Festival Fall 2018 Video editor the online literary magazine Latin American Literature Today (LALT) 2016-ongoing Produced video interview of Mexican author Juan Villoro Fall 2018 Produced video interview of Colombian journalist Felipe Restrepo Pombo Spring 2018 Produced video interview of Colombian author Alberto Salcedo Ramos Fall 2017 Produced video interview of Mexican poet Ana Clavel Fall 2016 Produced video interview of Mexican writer Nadia Villafuerte Fall 2016 Produced video interview of OU professor Marcelo Rioseco Sp. 2015
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Other service Coordinator – “Amigos del cine latinoamericano” film series. University of Pittsburgh. 2007–2010 Program and poster designer – “(des)articulaciones” Graduate Student Conference, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh. Fall 2009
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS SCOLAS (The Southwest Council of Latin American Studies) AATSP and Hispania Intellect and Journal of Spanish and Latin American Cinemas LASA (Latin American Studies Association) LASA Film Studies Track Member SCMS (Society for Cinema and Media Studies) SCMS Latino/a Caucus Member MLA (Modern Language Association) SCMLA (South Central Modern Language Association) ReVista, Harvard Review of Latin America Revista Kinetoscopio, Colombia
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTIONS Granted “SM” status at the Graduate College to be part on M.A. Fall 2018 and Ph.D. dissertation committees. Editing with DaVinci Resolve course, Bogotá, Colombia Summer 2018 Academic articles writing workshop (12-weeks_ Writing Center) Sp. 2018 University of Oklahoma Direction of photography for digital filmmaking course, Bogotá, Colombia Summer 2017 Advanced photography course UPAEP, Puebla, Mexico Spring 2016 Adobe Audition course, Bogotá Colombia Summer 2014 Adobe Premiere CC course, Bogotá Colombia Summer 2013 Conceptual editing seminar, Bogotá Colombia Summer 2012
OTHER CREATIVE ACTIVITY Film Visitas. Co–producer, Cinematographer, editor. Colombia, USA, 90 min. 2002–2006
Documentary Cine campesino I & II. Editor, Translator, production coordinator. 2003–2004 Honduras, San Francisco, CA
Television LatinEyes. Co–founder, producer, editor. 30 min. weekly segments. 1999–2006 San Francisco, CA
LANGUAGES Spanish: native fluency English: near native fluency
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