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Biography

B.A. in Spanish and History, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, 2011
M.A. Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Irvine, 2015

Research interests: Latin American film, populism, Peron, and soccer; New Latin American Cinema; Cinema Novo; “Golden Age” Mexican Cinema; Spatial and temporal representation in contemporary Southern Cone film (ex: Guzmán, Martel, Trapero, Alonso, Caetano)  in relation to the themes of memory, neoliberalism, and labor in post-dictatorship Latin America; Neorealism, Bazin, and Deleuze; New Materialisms; Psychoanalysis
Email: cgallen@uci.edu