Gabriela Copertari

Gabriela Copertari is an Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish at Case Western Reserve University. Her research focuses on contemporary Latin American film, literature, cultural studies, and gender studies, with particular emphasis on Argentine cinema and literature.

• Specializes in film, literature, cultural studies, and gender studies in contemporary Latin America
• Education: Licenciatura in Literature from University of Buenos Aires; Ph.D. in Spanish (Literature, Film, Cultural Studies) from Georgetown University
• Research interests: Social experience of loss in Argentine cinema, urban utopias, new subjectivities, and social conflict in recent Argentine media

Her scholarly contributions include publications in Latin American Literary Review, MLN, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, and Revista canadiense de estudios hispánicos. She recently co-edited a collective volume on Latin American cinema in the new millennium titled El estado de las cosas: cine latinoamericano en el nuevo milenium and is currently working on a second book analyzing urban utopias in Argentine films and novels.