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Stephanie M. Pridgeon is an Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Department Chair at Bates College. Her research focuses on 20th- and 21st-century Latin American film and literature, with an emphasis on intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and politics. She holds a Ph.D. from Emory University.
Her first book, *Revolutionary Visions: Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film* (University of Toronto Press), received Honorable Mention from the LASA Visual Culture Studies section. Her second book, *Absorption Narratives: Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity in the Cultural Imaginary of the Americas*, was published in 2025. Current research includes analyzing visual imagery of the Mexican Revolution in literature.
Pridgeon’s scholarship spans diverse topics such as Jewish-Indigenous literary interactions, queer ethnic rite narratives, and documentary film politics. She contributes to public discourse through opinion pieces like her 2024 analysis on Jewish political leadership in North America.
- Key Expertise: Latin American cinema, cultural hybridity, memory studies, feminist theory, and Marxist analysis.
- Recent Work: Leading projects on transnational Jewish narratives and post-revolutionary imagery.
