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Victoria Ruétalo is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. Her academic journey includes a BA from the University of Toronto, an MA from McGill University, and a PhD in Spanish from Tulane University (2002). She specializes in Latin American film, exploitation cinema, and cultural politics, with a focus on Argentina during the Cold War era.
Her research interrogates censorship, body politics, and transnational film flows. She co-edited Latsploitation, Exploitation Cinemas, and Latin America (2009) and authored Violated Frames: Armando Bó and Isabel Sarli's Sexploits (2022), which re-examines erotic cinema's role in Latin American cultural history. Current projects include a SSHRC-funded study on Cold War-era sexploitation film distribution.
Professional roles include serving as Associate Chair of the Department (2013–2015) and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Graduate Studies, focusing on supervisor training and student affairs. Her work emphasizes improving academic environments for graduate students and rethinking program structures.
Research themes include the intersection of sexploitation cinema with cultural politics, transnational film networks, and the impact of Cold War geopolitical dynamics on media distribution. She actively theorizes 'affect' in relation to intersectional subjectivities in film studies.
