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HCS Hires Award-Winning Latin American Film Scholar

The Department of Humanities & Cultural Studies is pleased to welcome Dr. Olivia Cosentino to the faculty as an Assistant Professor of Film & New Media Studies. A scholar of Latin American Film Studies, Dr. Cosentino specializes in 20th- and 21st-century Mexican cinema and culture. She is also the recipient of the 2024 Early Career Award from the Latin American Studies Association. Congratulations, Dr. Cosentino! Welcome to USF!

Early Career Award 2024
Dr. Olivia Cosentino, Zemurray-Stone Post-Doctoral Fellow
Stone Center for Latin American Studies
Tulane University

Since receiving her Ph.D. in Spanish (Latin American Cultural & Literary Studies) from The Ohio State University in 2020, Dr. Olivia Cosentino has established an outstanding publication record and active scholarly presence in the field of Latin American Film Studies. Over the past four years, Cosentino’s scholarship on 20th and 21st-century Mexican cinema and culture includes a co-edited book, several book chapters, and three peer-reviewed articles published in leading venues for Film and Media Studies research, including Journal of Cinema and Media Studies and Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas. Dr. Cosentino’s article “Slower Cinema: Violence, Affect, and Spectatorship in Las elegidas” (Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Spring 2021) and her book chapter “Un cine familiar: Recovering the 1980s Mexican Family Film” (In The Lost Cinema of Mexico: From Lucha Libre to Cine Familiar and Other Churros, edited by Olivia Cosentino and Brian Price, University of Florida Press, 2022) demonstrate the different ways she brings contemporary and historical Mexican cinemas into dialogue with the broader field of Film and Media Studies. Cosentino’s research deftly combines close cinematographic analysis with current discussions about transnational cinemas, filmic violence, affect and spectatorship, while also bringing attention to lesser-known filmmakers and genres within the Mexican film and media industries. Finally, Dr. Cosentino’s CV demonstrates a commitment to sharing her research within and beyond LASA’s scholarly community through conference presentations in Spanish and English at national and international congresses, film moderation and discussions, and public-facing podcasts and blogs.