Academics

Faculty & Staff

Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky, PhD

  • Assistant Professor of English, College of Liberal Arts
  • Telephone: 617-287-6700
  • Office Location: Wheatley Hall,06,00073

Areas of Expertise

Latin American Cinema (esp. from Brazil and Cuba); race and representation; political cinema; Third Cinema; documentary; ethnographic film; racial melodrama

Degrees

PhD, University of Pittsburgh

Professional Publications & Contributions

  • “The Price of Heaven: Remaking Politics in All that Heaven Allows, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, and Far from Heaven,” Cinema Journal, Spring 2008 issue.
  • “Ram Ke Nam [In the Name of God] (1991),” The Cinema of India: 24 Frames Series, ed. Lalitha Gopalan (Wallflower Press, 2010).
  • “Quilombo and Utopia: The Aesthetic of Labor in Linduarte Noronha’s Aruanda (1960),” under review

Additional Information

 

COURSES TAUGHT

Introduction to Film Analysis (English 380)
Realism and Film (English 624)

WORKS IN PROGRESS

“The Post-Colonial City Symphony Film and the Ruins of Suite Habana (2003)” (article)

The Aesthetic of Labor: Work, Toil, and Utopia in Latin American Political Cinema (book manuscript)

DOCUMENTARY FILM

Stealing Home: The Case of Contemporary Cuban Baseball (writer, co-director, co-producer) One-hour documentary, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), July 2001