Ana López, Communication Professor, Tulane University. Photo Paula Burch-Celentano

Ana López

Professor of Communication
lopez@tulane.edu
219 Newcomb Hall, Office C
504-862-3034

Education

Ph.D., University of Iowa

Biography

Ana M. López is Professor of Communication and Director of the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute. She also serves as Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs. Her research is focused on Latin American and Latino film and cultural studies. She is co-editor (with Marvin DLugo and Laura Podalsky) of The Routledge Companion to Latin American Cinema (2017) and the editor in chief of the Intellect journal Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas. She is also the author of the collection of essays Hollywood, Nuestra América y los Latinos (Ediciones Unión, Havana, 2012) and co-editor of three collections of essays on Latin American cinema. She has published more than three dozen essays and book chapters, addressing topics that range from melodrama and performance in the Golden Age Cinemas of Latin America, early silent cinema and modernity, and documentary to telenovelas, Cuban American media and intermediality. 

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