Stephanie M. Pridgeon
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies
About
Stephanie Pridgeon (Ph.D., Emory University) specializes in 20th– and 21st-century Latin American film and literature; her research focuses on the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and politics as depicted in recent cultural productions. Her first book,听 , was published by University of Toronto Press. Click to listen to an interview with the New Books Network about Revolutionary Visions. In 2022, Revolutionary Visions was awarded Honorable Mention for the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Visual Culture Studies section book prize. Revolutionary Visions has been reviewed by: , , , and Raanan Rein,
Pridgeon’s second book, , was published in 2025 by University of Toronto Press. Absorption Narratives was the subject of a recent podcast interview with New Books Network. Click to listen.
Her third book, analyzing the role of visual imagery of the Mexican Revolution (photography and muralism) in 20th- and 21st-century Latin American literature, is under contract with University of Toronto Press.
Refereed Articles and Book Chapters:
“Aging as Rewriting: Liliana Heker’s听Noticias sobre el iceberg (2024)” Forthcoming in Hispanic Review.
“Donde todo ocurre simult谩neamente: imaginer铆a muralista en Paula de Isabel Allende.鈥� . Eds. Inela Selimovi膰 and Marta P茅rez-Carbonell. Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2026. 53-74.
“Writing Settler Relations: Jewish Literary Engagement With Indigenous Themes in Argentina and Canada.” (Co-authored with David Koffman). Eds. David S. Koffman and David M.K. Sheinin. Brill, 2024. pp. 177-192.
“Encuentros desafectados en Los perros de Marcela Said. Eds. Inela Selimovi膰 and Jorge Gonz谩lez del Pozo. Iberoamericana, 2023. pp. 189-210.
“Jewish Guatemalan Fiction in a Global Context.”听. Eds. Gloria Chac贸n and M贸nica Albiz煤rez. MLA Options for Teaching. 2022
“.” MELUS: Multiethnic Literatures of the United States. 2022
“”听Latin American Jewish Studies 1.1 (2022): 35-48.
“”听Armed Jews in the Americas. Eds. Raanan Rein and David Sheinin. Brill. 2021. pp. 222-46.
“”听Studies in Documentary Film听 16.1 (2022): 68-82.
“.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies听29.2 (2020): 291-309.
“‘” (Co-authored with Katherine Ostrom, Emory University) Bulletin of Contemporary Hispanic Studies听2.1 (2020): 69-84.
鈥溾�� Latin American Perspectives听46.3 (May 2019)
鈥溾�� Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hisp谩nicos 42.1 (2017): 99-121.
鈥溾�� Hispanic Studies Review 2.2 (2017): 208-233.
鈥溾赌樷�� Revista de Estudios Hisp谩nicos 51.1 (2017): 101-125. DOI: 10.1353/rvs.2017.0005
鈥�.鈥� alter/nativas: latin american cultural studies journal 6 (Spring 2016).
鈥溾�澨�Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 25.1 (2016): 83-103 DOI: 10.1080/13569325.2015.1091298
Public scholarship
“” The Forward Opinion. 6 June 2024.
Book Reviews, Review Essays, Encyclopedia Entries
The Poetry-Film Nexus in Latin America: Exploring Intermediality on Screen and Page. Eds. Ben Bollig and David M.J. Wood. Hispanic Research Journal (Forthcoming)
“” Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies. 2023
Caribbean Jewish Crossings: Literary History and Creative Practice. Eds. Sarah Phillips Casteel and Heidi Kaufman. Latin American Jewish Studies 1.2 (Fall 2022)
. Mirna Vohnsen. Rev. Revista de Estudios Hisp谩nicos 54.3, 881-82.
. Ed. Marcela Crespo Buitur贸n. Rev. Revista de Estudios Hisp谩nicos听54.2, 616-18
. Liz Harvey-Kattou. Rev. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Vol. 97
听Chasqui听48.2 (2019), R15-R24. (Review Essay)
鈥�.鈥澨�Latin American Research Review听53.3 (2018): 627-631. (Review essay)
. Antonio G贸mez. Rev. Revista de Estudios Hisp谩nicos. 51.1 (2017) 199-201. DOI: 10.1353/rvs.2017.0014
鈥溾�� Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Ed. Henri Gooren, Springer (2017)
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-08956-0_269-1