Cristina Miguez Cruz

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Cristina Miguez Cruz

Professor of Spanish

World Languages

Biography

Originally from Montevideo, Uruguay, I bring a 'Southern Cone' perspective to my work, though my heart is shared with Venezuela, where I completed my Master’s, and the U.S., where I earned my Ph.D. at the University of Michigan.
My academic path wasn't a straight line; I actually began my journey studying agronomic engineering! That foundational love for nature and sciences eventually evolved into a passion for the study of cultures, films, and literatures. Today, I use cinema and music to bring the Spanish-speaking world to life.
While I like living in Colorado, I often find myself missing the ocean and the walkable lifestyle of Latin American cities. To recharge, I return to South America annually to reconnect with my roots and simply enjoy being back by the sea. When I’m not teaching, I enjoy relaxing in the park with my dogs and catching up on international films and series.

Education

Other in Contemporary Latin American Narrative and Cinema

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures: Spanish

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

MA in Literary Studies

Central University of Venezuela

BA in Licenciate in Letters

University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay

Published Works

  • Miguez Cruz, C. Uruguayan Animation Films. Bloomsbury Publishing, https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/.
  • Miguez Cruz, C. (2023). La vulnerabilidad de los cuerpos masculinos en el cine uruguayo (The Vulnerability of Male Bodies in Uruguayan Cinema). Latin American and LatinX Visual Culture, (5.3), 50-66. https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2023.5.3.50.
  • Miguez Cruz, C. (2021). Lo siniestro se sigue riendo en la literatura de Lamborghini, Aira y Carrera, y en la producción cultural poscrisis 2001. Conversaciones del Cono Sur, Magazine of Southern Cone Session of LASA, https://conosurconversaciones.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/conversaciones-del-conosur-5.1-miguez-cruz-on-ros.pdf.
  • Miguez Cruz, C. (2019). Consumo y Educación en el Cine Uruguayo Reciente: Entre la austeridad, el juego y el exceso. (pp 167-203). Prometeo Editorial. https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Mariano-Veliz-ebook/dp/B09754LP2K.
  • Miguez Cruz, C. (2018). Consumption and Education in Recent Uruguayan Cinema: Between Sobriety, Joy and Excess. Dissidences, Hispanic Journal of Theory and Criticism, 8(13), 35. https://files01.core.ac.uk/download/pdf/214030131.pdf.
  • Miguez Cruz, C. (2013). Imagined Criminals: Changing Aesthetics, Ethics, and Politics in Latin American Crime Cinema and Narrative. (26Issue 978-1-4331-2065-7, pp 172). Peter Lang Publishing. https://www.amazon.com/El-criminal-imaginado-latinoamericana-1990-2010/dp/1433120658.
  • Miguez Cruz, C. (2012). "Consumption of Crack, Crime, and Drums in Uruguayan Narrative: From Estokolmo to La Alemana by Gustavo Escanlar.". Revista Hispánica Moderna, Columbia University, (65.1), 25. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/475480.
  • Miguez Cruz, C. (2011). Crimen, vértigo y enemistad absoluta en el cine venezolano: Secuestro express de Jonathan Jakubowicz. Caribe, journal of Caribbean culture and literature, XIV(1), 23-42. https://www.academia.edu/97632418/Crimen_v%C3%A9rtigo_y_enemistad_absoluta_en_el_cine_venezolano_Secuestro_express_de_Jonathan_Jakubowicz.
  • Miguez Cruz, C. (2009). "Feminine Crime and Gender Transgressions in Uruguayan Cinema.". Tiresias: Culture, Politics, and Critical Theory, Issue 3(NA), 114-133. lsa.umich.edu/content/dam/rll-assets/rll-docs/Tiresias%20Issue%203%20-%20April%202009.pdf.
  • Miguez Cruz, C. (2005). “Power and History in the Uruguayan Postdictatorship: ¡Bernabé, Bernabé! by Tomás de Mattos and Maluco by Napoleón Baccino.”. Revista Argos. University Simón Bolívar, 42-43, 90-103.
  • Miguez Cruz, C. (2001). “Del simulacro de la risa y otras moscas. Stefania Mosca. El suplicio de los tiempos.”. Revista Nacional de Cultura.
  • Miguez Cruz, C. (2001). “Entrevista a Luz Marina Rivas: Mujeres tras la memoria en el fondo del mar.”. Boletín de la Fundación Kuai-Mare del Libro Venezolano.
  • Miguez Cruz, C. (2001). “Horácio Costa. Los jardines y los poetas.”. Boletín de la Fundación Kuai-Mare del Libro Venezolano.
  • Miguez Cruz, C. (2001). Adriana Bracho A la sombra del alma. Doña Bárbara en el quehacer venezolano; Juan Calzadilla, ed. El platillo de la balanza. Escritos sobre la muerte, el perdón, la justicia, la impunidad; Carlos Sandoval La variedad el caos. Revista Imagen.
  • Miguez Cruz, C. (2001). “Neither White nor Civilized: Uruguayan Postmodernism in ¡Bernabé, Bernabé! de Tomás de Mattos.”. Revista Estudios, Universidad SImón Bolívar, 18, 147-166.
  • Miguez Cruz, C. (2001). “Dunia Galindo. Teatro, cuerpo y nación En las fronteras de una nueva sensibilidad; Andrés Bansart et al. Memoria, nostalgia y exilio". Revista Imagen.