Santiago Juan Navarro

Santiago Juan-Navarro is a Professor of Hispanic Literature and Film at Florida International University, where he currently serves as Associate Chair in the Department of Modern Languages. His recent books include Nuevas aproximaciones al cine hispánico: Migraciones temporales, textuales y étnicas en el bicentenario de las independencias iberoamericanas (1810-2010), Juana of Castile: History and Myth of the Mad Queen, La ciudad en la literatura y el cine, and Memoria histórica, género e interdisciplinariedad: los estudios culturales hispánicos en el siglo XXI. He has published and lectured extensively on Cuban and Spanish cinema. He is currently working in a monograph entitled History, Myth, and Propaganda: The Spanish-Cuban-American War Goes to the Movies. This article draws from the essay “ʻEn el vórtice de la enajenaciónʼ: Nicolás Guillén Landrián y la implosión del documental científico-popular cubano de los 60”, published in 2015 in Studies in Latin American Popular Culture.