LASA Film Studies Section: Mejor Ensayo para Olivia Cosentino (graduate or postgraduate)

Estamos muy contentos poder anunciar a una de nuestras autoras iMex, Olivia Cosentino, como premio de Mejor Ensayo Estudiante posgrado/investigador emergente otorgado por la Latin American Studies Association en la sección «Film Studies» por su artículo:

Haunted Bodies: Spectrality, Gender Violence and the Central American Female Migrant in Recent Mexican Cinema (pp. 41-54; DOI: 10.23692/iMex.16.3)

Olivia Cosentino M.A.

Olivia Cosentino is a PhD student in Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of South Carolina. She specializes in 20^th and 21^st Mexican cinema and culture. Olivia is particularly interested in gender, violence and affect theory. She has published on the contemporary Mexican youth road film and 20^th century mass-media paths to female stardom in edited volumes. Her article on Lucerito and 1980s Mexican media appeared in The Velvet Light Trap (2016) and she has written book reviews for Revista de Estudios Hispanicos and Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas. Her essay on ¿Qué le dijiste a Dios?, intimate labor and queer camp is forthcoming in Domestic Labor in 21^st Century Latin American Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan).