My primary research areas of interest are Mexican documentary films that focus on gender, sexuality, care work, capitalism, and disability. More specifically, my work analyses film representations of disability in Mexico from the 21st century in order to illustrate the variety of functions that “disability” has played in rendering illnesses on screen.
Adriana Perez Limon
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Hispanic Studies
PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Research Areas
Additional Interests
- Film
- Disability
- Mexico
- Gender
Research Statement
Biography
I was born in Guadalajara, Mexico and raised in Los Angeles, California. I enjoy reading and watching movies.
ARTICLES
-“Care Work and the Mexican Novel” (Forthcoming in Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidad. Special Issue)
-“The Trouble with Fat: Excess and Desire in Mariana Villegas’ Este cuerpo mío”Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidad. Special Issue 45.1 (2020): 33-46.
-“Documenting Precarity and Other Ghostly Remains: Passivity as Political Practice in Betzabé García’s Documentary Los reyes del pueblo que no existe” Studies in Latin American Popular Culture. Volume 36 (2018): 95-107.
BOOK CHAPTERS
-“Discomfort in Elder Women Intimacies.” Atlas of Global Media. Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, Editor. Amherst College Press. (Forthcoming)
-“Visualizing the Nonnormative Body in Guadalupe Nettel’s El cuerpo en que nací.” Mexican Literature in Theory. Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, Editor. New York: Bloomsbury (2018): 211-226.
Teaching
Spanish 012. Intermediate Spanish II.
Spanish 141. Advanced Spanish Grammar.
Spanish 152. The Cultural Evolution of Latin America.
Spanish 213. Introduction to Hispanic Literature and Film.
Spanish 263. The Spanish American Short Story.
Spanish 397. Gender, Sexuality, and Disability in Latin America.
Spanish 397. Mexican Cinema: From the Big Screen to Netflix.
Spanish 398. Mexico at the Movies.