Gilberto Blasini

Gilberto Blasini is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's College of Letters & Science, specializing in film, television, and media studies. His research examines road movies, Caribbean cinema, post-1980 U.S. television, Puerto Rican performance art, and queer media.

Blasini serves on advisory committees for Latin American/Caribbean Studies and LGBT Studies. He co-moderates Milwaukee's Cinema Club and contributes cultural criticism to Puerto Rico's 80 grados journal. Recent publications analyze Latin American road cinema, queer Mexican film, and Caribbean cultural representation.

His scholarly work demonstrates consistent engagement with cinema as a site of cultural negotiation, particularly examining how visual media constructs identities across Latin American and Caribbean contexts.