Professor of Film Studies and Latin American Literature, Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana, Brazil
Bruno López Petzoldt is Professor of Film Studies and Latin American Literature at the Department of Art, Culture, and History at the Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana in Brazil. He’s also Senior Research Fellow at the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CALAS) in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He holds a PhD in Cinema and Literature, as well as a Magister Artium degree in Romance Studies and Media Culture from the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Media of the University of Hamburg. His research interests include memory studies, narratology, film studies, intermediality, the relations between trauma, literature, and cinema, as well as interdisciplinary methods of research in culture, cinema and literature.
Recent Publications
Recordar para perdurar: la participación del cine en la reparación de experiencias traumáticas (Bielefeld UP, 2023) explores the ways in which film rescues multiple memories and contributes to collective reparation. The book offers an interdisciplinary conceptualization of traumatic experiences in Latin American communities devastated by systematic violations of their fundamental rights.
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Current Projects
Traumatic Pasts & Film in Latin America
Dynamics of Cultural Memory in the Southern Cone: Literature, Film, and Media