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Carolina Rueda Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Film and Media Studies Program
University of Oklahoma
[email protected]
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 film
Dissertation title: Phantasmagoric Imagination in Twenty–first Century Latin
American Cinema: Figures of Trauma and Crisis in the Contemporary City
Dissertation director: Dr. Hermann Herlinghaus.
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, 1991.
Main areas of academic interest: Contemporary Latin American film (political
perspectives, urban cinema, new aesthetics); transnational cinema; contemporary
women filmmakers.
Other research and teaching interests: Interdisciplinary approaches to world
literature, Latin American literature, and film; history, theory, and practice of film
editing; writing about film; media and new media theory.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS
Adobe Audition
Adobe Premiere CC
Conceptual editing seminar
Classical photography for film seminar
Summer 2014
Summer 2013
Summer 2012
Summer 2012
EMPLOYMENT
Teaching
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)
Film and Media Studies Program, University of Oklahoma
Current
Assistant Professor (Ranked Term Appointment)
Fall 2013 – Spring 2014
Film and Media Studies Program, University of Oklahoma
Lecturer (Renewable Term Appointment)
Fall 2011 – Spring 2013
Film and Media Studies Program, University of Oklahoma
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Courses (Taught in English):
FMS 2013 Film History 1960-Present
Spring 2015
FMS 4013 Dystopian and Post-Apocalyptic World Cinema
Fall 2014
FMS 3243 Hispanic Cinema
Spring 2012, Spring 2014
FMS 3810 Film and Media Editing: Theory and Practice Fall 2011 – Spring 2015
FMS 3233 Filmmakers Up Close: Iñárritu, Del Toro, Cuarón
Spring 2013
FMS 2033 Writing about Film
Fall 2011 – Spring 2014
FMS 2013 Film History and Criticism to 1945
Fall 2011
Student independent studies
Fall 2014, Spring 2015
Student internships
Spring 2013 - Spring 2015
Spanish Teaching Fellow
Fall 2008 – Spring 2010
Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures
University of Pittsburgh
Courses taught:
Intermediate Spanish 0003
Spring 2010
Spanish 0002
Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Summer 2009
Spanish Teaching Assistant
Fall 2005 – Spring 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
Spring 2007
Spanish 102 & 103
Spring, Fall 2006
Professional Experience in Film and Video
Co–producer, Cinematographer, Editor
Visitas (Feature Film). Colombia – USA
2002 – 2006
Co–founder, Producer, Editor
LatinEyes (Television Program). San Francisco, CA
1999 – 2004
Editor, Translator, Production Coordinator
Cine campesino I & II (Documentary)
La Ceiba, Honduras – San Francisco, CA
2003 – 2004
RESEARCH
Book
Provisional title: La ciudad y sus fantasmagorías. Una aproximación benjaminiana
del cine urbano contemporáneo de Latinoamérica. Accepted for publication by
Editorial Cuarto Propio, Chile.
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Published articles
“Carlos Bolado’s Bajo California: Crossing Borders and Dislocating the Western
Tradition.” Published in The Western in the Global South. New York: Routledge,
2015. 213-32.
“Aesthetics of Dystopia: Blindness from Novel to Film.” Published in World
Literature Today. May 2015 Issue. 12-15.
“Mise en abyme, parodia y violencia en La Ultima Cena de Tomás Gutiérrez
Alea.” Published in Apuntes Hispánicos. 9 (2008): 17-26.
http://www.spanport.utoronto.ca/apuntes/revista.html
“Exceso y narco–posmodernidad en el cine: El Colombian dream – El sueño de
todos.” Published in Revista Kinetoscopio. Junio/Agosto (2008): 30-36.
Accepted for publication
"Memory, Trauma, and Phantasmagoria in Claudia Llosa's La teta asustada." To be
published in Hispania in 2015.
“Tania Hermida’s Qué tan lejos: Bending Conventions On The Road to Cuenca.”
To be published in Reconfiguring Precarious Landscapes: the Road Movie in Latin
America.
“Bleeding the Rubber Trees: Parallelism and Paradox in La vorágine and
Fitzcarraldo.” To be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in Studies on
Literary Adaptation to Film.
Reviewer
Hispania, Johns Hopkins University. “Simulacrum vs. Coming of Age in Larraín's
No and its Source, El Plebiscito”
Fall 2013
Revista Laboratorio. Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile.
“The Shadow of Cinema in Baudelaire’s Poetics”
Spring 2014
CONFERENCES & PRESENTATIONS
“Tania Hermida’s Qué tan lejos: Bending Conventions On The Road to Cuenca.”
Latin American Studies Association International Congress LASA. San Juan,
Puerto Rico. 2015.
“La función estético-experimental del cine ‘de la calle’: Ronda nocturna y La
sociedad del semáforo.” Latin American Studies Association International Congress
LASA. Chicago, Il. 2014
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“Testimony, Memory, and Phantasmagoria in Claudia Llosa’s La teta asustada.
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference SCMS Seattle, WA. 2014
“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, Chile,
October, 2013.
Invited Speaker. “Latin American Cinema in the New Millennium: Phantasmagoria,
Crisis, and the Urban Space.” Center for the Americas. University of Oklahoma,
September 2012.
“La ciudad sitiada: huellas de un fallido proyecto civilizatorio.” JALLA 2012
Conference. Universidad del Valle. Cali, Colombia, August 2012.
“Ricardo Larraín’s cinematography: Exile and Survival in the Midst of Political and
Natural Forces.” SCMLA 2011 Conference. Hot Springs, Arkansas, October 2011.
Recurrent presentations at the “Amigos del cine latinoamericano” film series.
University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2007 – Spring 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, Fall 2009.
“Deseo, exceso y narco–posmodernidad en El Colombian Dream.” Geographical
Imaginaries and Hispanic Film. Graduate Student Conference. Tulane University,
November 2008.
“El reverso de la derrota en el cine latinoamericano: La ciénaga.” 32nd Colloquium
on Literature and Film. Graduate Student Conference. West Virginia University,
September 2008.
La sombra del caminante (Colombia, 2005). “(des)articulaciones” Graduate student
conference. Department of Hispanic Languages & Literatures, University of
Pittsburgh, Fall 2007.
“Mise en abyme, parodia y violencia en La última cena.” XXXII Congreso anual de
literaturas hispánicas. Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2006.
“La puesta en escena en La última cena.” Romance Languages and Literatures
Conference, University of Cincinnati, Spring 2006.
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
University of Oklahoma
College or Arts and Sciences Travel Award, Fall 2013, Sp. 2014, Sp. 2015
College of Arts and Sciences Junior Faculty Summer Fellowship, Spring 2013.
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College of Arts and Sciences Junior Faculty Summer Fellowship, Spring 2012.
University of Pittsburgh, College of Arts and Sciences
Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship for the 2010 – 2011 academic year.
Outstanding Honors Students Award. February 2011.
Arts and Science Fellowship for the 2007 – 2008 academic year.
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures
Teaching Fellowship. 2008 – 2010 academic years.
Summer Research Scholarship, Spring 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, Spring 2009.
Center for Latin American Studies Travel Award, Fall 2008.
University of Cincinnati
Outstanding Master's Student Award, Spring 2007.
Graduate Teaching Assistantship. 2005 – 2007 academic years.
Taft Travel Award, Fall 2006.
Graduate Student Governance Association Travel Award, Fall 2006.
Taft Travel Award, Spring 2006.
Graduate Student Governance Association Travel Award, Spring 2006.
University of Oklahoma
Graduate Assistantship, University of Oklahoma, School of Art, 1991.
Dean’s Honor Roll Placement, University of Oklahoma, 1990.
Television Program Awards
LatinEyes
Emmy Award: “Best Cultural Television Program,” 2006.
Emmy Award nominations: “Best Cultural Television Program” 2003, 2005,
2007, and 2008.
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
International Film Festivals Official Selection
Festival du Cinéma de Bruxelles. Brussels, Belgium, 2007.
Festival internacional de cine y video de Cartagena. Colombia, 2007.
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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 International Film Festival. Fribourg,
Switzerland, 2006.
World Premiere: Festival des Films du Monde. Montreal, Canada, 2005.
Colombian Ministry of Culture Film Award, received for being invited to the
Fribourg International Film Festival (Fribourg, Switzerland), 2006.
Colombian Ministry of Culture Film Award, received for being invited to the
Festival des Films du Monde (Montreal, Canada), 2005.
SERVICE
Departmental. Film and Media Studies Program, University of Oklahoma
Coordinator for Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival including travel with students to
Clermont-Ferrand
Fall 2014 - Spring 2015
Committee member and panel moderator. Second Annual Society for
Cinema & Media Studies Undergraduate Conference (U-SCMS) Spring 2014
Strategic Planning Committee member
Fall 2012, 2013
Course and Curriculum Committee member
Fall 2011 – Spring 2015
Technology Committee member
Spring 2012 – Spring 2015
Faculty Marshal Graduation Ceremony
Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Spring 2015
Juror. Annual RedBud Film Festival.
Spring 2012, 2013, 2014
Juror. The Ned Hockman Filmmaking Award
Spring 2013, 2014, 2015
Juror. CAC Film Series Student Film Festival
Spring 2012, 2013, 2014
Juror in the selection of films for the Clermont–Ferrand
International Short Film Festival.
Spring 2012 – 2015
Other service and creative activities:
Screening moderator documentary Granito (2011)
University of Oklahoma, Center for Social Justice.
Spring 2015
Publicity and activities related to OU-in-Puebla Study Abroad Program.
Producer, camera, editor. An interview with Marcelo Rioseco.
By Grady Wray. World Literature Today.
Sp. 2015
Spring 2015
Film presenter – Nostalgia de la luz (Patricio Guzmán, 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
Spring 2014
Film presenter – Música campesina (Alberto Fuguet, Chile, 2011)
University of Oklahoma.
Fall 2013
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Committee member and film discussant – Center for the
Americas Symposium. University of Oklahoma.
Spring 2013
Cover designer – Bolivian Studies Journal Volumes 2009-11
and 2012-14, University of Pittsburgh.
Spring 2009, Spring 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
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
Contact person and presenter of Colombian filmmaker Víctor Gaviria
5th International Latin American Cultural Studies Conference
“Narco–Epics Unbound,” Department of Hispanic Languages
and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh.
Spring 2008
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
AATSP and Hispania
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
ReVista, Harvard Review of Latin America
Revista Kinetoscopio, Medellín. Colombia
Fall 2012 – Fall 2014
Fall 2007 – Fall 2014
Fall 2007 – Fall 2014
Fall 2010 – Spring 2011
Fall 2010 – Fall 2014
Fall 2011 – Fall 2014
2005 - 2014
LANGUAGES
Spanish: native fluency
English: near native fluency
REFERENCES
Hermann Herlinghaus
- Professur Fur Lateinamerikanische Literatur Romanisches
Seminar Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat, Freiburg, Germany
(0761) 203-3183
- Former Professor
Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures
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University of Pittsburgh
[email protected]
Enrique Giordano
Associate Professor
Department of Romance Languages & Literatures
University of Cincinnati
(513) 556-1837
[email protected]
Clemencia Rodriguez
Professor
Department of Communication
University of Oklahoma
(405) 325-1570
[email protected]
John Beverley
Distinguished Professor
Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures
University of Pittsburgh
(412) 624- 6382
[email protected]
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