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Geoffrey Kantaris is Professor of Latin American Culture at the University of Cambridge, with affiliations to St Catharine's College (Fellow) and the Centre of Latin American Studies. His research focuses on modern Latin American film and literature, particularly urban cinema from Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil, alongside women's writing, popular culture, and globalization. He teaches graduate seminars on spatial theory and posthegemonic political theory.
- Books: The Subversive Psyche (Oxford UP, 1996) and co-edited Latin American Popular Culture: Politics, Media, Affect (Boydell, 2013)
- Supervision: MPhil/PhD students in Latin American urban film, women's writing, and cultural theory
His publications span urban film analysis, affect theory, and postmodern narratives, with a focus on necropolitics, biopolitical aesthetics, and the interplay of memory and technology in Latin American cinema. He explores how urban spaces reflect power dynamics and marginalized identities, particularly in works by directors like Carlos Marcovich, Pablo Trapero, and Víctor Gaviria.
Advising students on topics including Latin American culture, history, and comparative literatures, his work bridges film studies, psychoanalytic theory, and critical urbanism. He examines how texts like Luisa Valenzuela's Como en la guerra challenge symbolic orders and reframe feminist discourse.
- Contact: egk10@cam.ac.uk | geoffrey.kantaris@caths.cam.ac.uk
- Location: St Catharine's College, Cambridge, UK
