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Susan Martin-Márquez specializes in Spanish imperial cultural history, with a special focus on the legacy of Modern-era colonialism in Africa and the Caribbean, and in Spanish and Latin American cinema studies. She is now serving, in her twelfth year, as director of the Cinema Studies Program at Rutgers.
Professor Martin-Márquez is currently completing Jail-Breaking the Carceral Atlantic: Cuban Rebellion and Political Deportation in the Late Spanish Empire. Previous books include Disorientations: Spanish Colonialism in Africa and the Performance of Identity (Yale University Press, 2008; Spanish translation in Bellaterra, 2011); and Sight Unseen: Feminist Discourse in Spanish Cinema (Oxford University Press, 1999). She was also awarded an NEH Fellowship for her project Radical Filmmakers at the Transatlantic Crossroads: New Cinemas and Networks of Exchange in the Long 1960s. She has published numerous articles related to that study, including “Engendering Ethnographic Filmmaking in Francoist Spain: Hysteria and the Queer Forest of Far from the Trees" (in Screen); “Screening (Out) the Isle of Pines Youth Work Camps: Sara Gómez’s 1960s Documentary Trilogy and the Racialized Legacy of Cuban Penal Deportation" (in the edited volume Framing the Penal Colony); and "By Camera and by Gun: Joris Ivens and the Radicalization of Latin American Filmmakers" (in Ivens Magazine).
