The Department of Romance Languages & Literature invites you to a talk by Ana Almeyda-Cohen

Mediating Sex Work, Remediating the Madam in Mexican Cinema

Ana Almeyda-Cohen is a scholar of Latin American film, literature, and culture with a focus on Mexico and the Caribbean. Her research explores the cinematic and popular responses to sex work, migration, the drug trade, and witchcraft in twentieth and twenty-first century Mexican film and visual culture. She has written on 1980s screen culture in the Dominican Republic and has presented on gender, horror, and Mexploitation in Latin American cinema. Her book manuscript, Mediating Sex, Drugs, Magic, and Migration: Women (Re)mediators in Mexican Cinema, 1933-2011 traces how filmmakers repeat and recast women as mediators to make sense of forced or clandestine prostitution, witchcraft, drug culture and migration as national and transnational “problems” often complicated by social, political, and racial tensions. The book asks how film goes beyond its representational function to make the invisible labor of women in sex trafficking, the supernatural, border crossings, and the drug trade visible. Dr. Almeyda-Cohen holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies-Romance Languages from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. in Iberian and Latin Cultures from Stanford University. She received a B.A. in Spanish and International Relations from Colgate University. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Colby College.

Wednesday March 1st, 5:15pm

Boylston Hall, Room 335