Dr. Nayibe Bermudez-Barrios
Positions
Associate Professor, Spanish
Faculty of Arts, School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures and Cultures
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Research partners
I am looking for partnerships in cinema offering opportunities for learning, exchange, and funding, and research partners interested in creating panels on cinema, book anthologies, and edited books.
Learning opportunities
I am looking for MA and PhD students with a research interest in all aspects of film production and the analysis of television series and novels.
Background
Educational Background
Doctor of Philosophy Spanish: Twentieth Century Spanish-American Literature, University of Kansas, 2004
M.A. Spanish and Spanish-American Literature, University of Arkansas, 1996
B.A. Translation & Interpret, Moscow State Linguistics University, 1988
Biography
I received my Ph.D. in Latin American Literatures and Cinemas from the University of Kansas in 2004, but I joined the University of Calgary in 2001. In my research, I focus on twentieth—and twenty-first-century Literatures of Latin America, with an emphasis on genre, gender, social space, and biopolitics, and on cinemas through the lens of transnationalism, extractivism, and sound.
In my book Sujetos Transnacionales: la negociación en cine y literatura (2008), I analyze the ways in which upper-class women from diverse ethnicities and levels of experience negotiate with the restrictions of their narratological, social, economic, and political environments.
My edited book, Latin American Cinemas: Local Views and Transnational Connections (2011), presents case studies of the most important Latin American cinemas of the twentieth century and their films to delve into the meanings of transnationalism. Most notably, the book offers insights into renovated cinematic visions and alertness to citizens' everyday experiences that help connect the contemporary cinemas of Latin America even more closely to social and cultural concerns.
My current work includes papers on “Dystopia in Latin American Cinemas,” Netflix's impact on Latin American cinema production, and a manuscript on “Gender and Genre in Latin American Cinemas.”
Research
Areas of Research
Courses
| Course number | Course title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| SPAN 201 | Beginners' Spanish I | Fall 2024 |
| SPAN 471/532 | Dystopian Cinemas | Winter 2023 |
Awards
- Nominated for a 2020-2021 Students’ Union Teaching Excellence Award., University of Calgary. 2021
- Nominated for Faculty of Arts Award for Leadership in Internationalization for organizing The Latin Wave Film Festival., 2014
- Nominated for the Faculty of Arts Award for Leadership in Internationalization, 2014
Publications
- Country Club” and Global City in The Widows of Thursday by Claudia Piñeiro.. Nayibe I. Bermúdez Barrios. The Latin Americanist, vol. 66 num. 2. 147-169. (2022)
- "Sexploitation, Space, and Lesbian Representation in Armando Bo´s Fuego." Latin American Cinemas: Local Views and Transnational Connections. Ed. Nayibe Bermúdez Barrios. 2011. . Nayibe I. Bermúdez Barrios. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 333. 251-277. (2011)
- "Miroslava by Alejandro Pelayo: Negotiated Adaptation and the (Trans)National Gendered Subject." Relocating Identities in Latin American Cultures. Ed. E. Montes Garcés. Nayibe I. Bermúdez Barrios. Calgary: University of Calgary Press. 133-166. (2007)
More Information
2018: Faculty of Arts Travel Grant ($1,000) to present “Espacios transnacionales en la narrativa de Claudia Piñeiro.” Campus de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, June 12-15.
2014: Faculty of Arts, ARIEL, and Department of French, Italian and Spanish ($4,300) to organize the 2014 Latin Wave Film Festival (in association with PROA and Tenaris ($20,000).
2013: URGC Travel Grant ($1800) to present “The Thriller, Space and the Politics of Lesbian Representation in Lucía Puenzo’s El niño pez.”University of Harvard, Boston, May 26-30.
“Sounding Uncanny Affect: Time and Space in Lucrecia Martel’s Zama”
“La cara oculta (Andy Baiz, 2011): género cinematográfico y cine trasnacional.” Invited presentation. Eventos
Uninorte en Verano, Universidad del Norte. Barranquilla, June 21, 2018.
2019: Fuentes-Doria, Deivi, Aníbal Toscano, et al. “Sostenibilidad empresarial: una revisión documental en el contexto de las pequeñas y medianas empresas a nivel mundial” translated as “Enterprise Sustainability: Literature Review in the Context of SMEs Worldwide.” October.
2023: Vich, Cynthia, and Sarah Barrow, eds. Peruvian Cinema of the Twenty-First Century: Dynamic and Unstable Grounds. Springer Nature, 2020. Forthcoming.
2015: DOLORES TIERNEY. Emilio Fernández: Pictures in the Margins. Spanish and Latin American Filmmakers. Manchester/New York: Manchester University Press. 2012. ix + 198 pp. Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 92 (1),160-1.
2024 ““Netflix, Uruguay, and the Western: What about National Cinema?” Permanent Global Film Panel, Midwest Modern Language Conference, Chicago, Illinois. November 14-16.
2023 “A Uruguayan Construction of Social and Racial Cohesion in Togo’s (2022) Use of Westen Tropes.” Permanent Global Film Panel, Midwest Modern Language Conference, Chicago, Illinois. November 2-4. Remote presentation.
2022: " New Trends in Transnational Cinemas: Latin American Dystopias and Affective Forms of Neo-Extractivism." Permanent Global Film Panel, Midwest Modern Language Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November. Remote presentation.
2021: “Author Politics and Immaterial Labour in Lucrecia Martel’s Zama (2017).” Teaching Women’s Filmmaking Conference, Istanbul Bilgi University, Department of Film and Television, 16-17 April. Remote presentation.
2020: ““Country Club” and Global City in The Widows of Thursday by Claudia Piñeiro.” Cercle Benveniste, University of Calgary, CHD 420, February 28.
2018: “Espacios transnacionales en la narrativa de Claudia Piñeiro.” XLII Congreso IILI, Departamento de Literatura de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana y el Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI). Campus de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, June 12-15.
“Las tretas de la razón Neo-Noir en el filme Tesis sobre un homicidio.” XIV Congreso de novela y cine negro: un género sin límites. Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, April 24-27.
2021: “Zoom in on Cinemas,” Facebook virtual meetings with students and film specialists from Calgary, Colombia, Iran, and Mexico. February-June. In five 95-minute sessions I lead the discussion on Latin American contemporary films. 15 participants.
2018 Cine-forum at Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. Invited by Erica Ferrer Ariza, Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras for Uninorte in Summer, June 21.
2015: Q & A with Mexican filmmaker Isaac Ezban and producer Miriam Mercado for El incidente. Funding from FIS, LARC and Film Studies.
2014-2016: Director, Latin American Film Studies Series.
2014: Latin Wave Film Festival, organizer (with support from Proa/Tenaris). A showcase of recent Latin American films. March 20-23.
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