Nils Longueira Borrego
Department | Cinema and Television Arts
Phone | 657-278-7023
Email | nlongueiraborrego@fullerton.edu
Office | CP 650-19
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Degree and University
|B.A. Art
History, University of Havana, 2015.
M.A. Film and Media Studies & Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University, 2019.
M.Phil. Film and Media Studies & Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University, 2021.
Ph.D. Film and Media Studies & Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University, 2024.
Nils Longueira Borrego is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema and Television Arts at California State University, Fullerton. His teaching includes courses in Latin American cinema, Mexican Cinema, The Western, Documentary Cinema, and Writing about the Moving Image.
Professor Longueira Borrego’s research interests include Latin American cinema and the intersections between film and political identities in the region, cinematic representations of labor and working-class culture, documentary cinema, Cuban cinema, and the cinemas of the Global South. His current book-length project, provisionally entitled The Cinematic People: Labor, Popular Classes, and Political Communities in the Early Cinema of Argentina and Brazil, examines the cinema’s role in the mediated emergence of collective political identities in those countries at the turn of the twentieth century. He is currently co-editing two volumes. Entangled Temporalities: Memory and the Revolution in Twenty-first-century Cuban Cinema and Digital Media (with Dunja Fehimović, Reynaldo Lastre, and Isdanny Morales Sosa, and for the University Press of Florida’s series “Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America.” The collection addresses the transformations in the Cuban mediascape in the twenty-first century. The second volume (coedited with Moira Fradinger and Vanessa Gubbins) is the first comprehensive study in English about Venezuelan filmmaker Margot Benacerraf, one of the forerunners of the New Latin American cinema.
