Adela Pineda

Boston University College of Arts & Sciences, Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies

Adela Pineda Franco is professor of Latin American literature and film and director of Latin American studies. Her research focuses on the relationship between culture and politics, the dynamics of cultural transfer, and the transnational impact of visual media on literature and intellectual thought. She has written on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American literature and film, and US-Mexico cultural relations. Her recent books John Steinbeck y Mexico. Una mirada cinematográfica en la era de la hegemonía norteamericana (2018) and The Mexican Revolution on the World Stage: Intellectuals and Film in the Twentieth Century (2019) explore the role of cinema and intellectual thought in the shaping of inter-state cultural relations and borderland subjects during the twentieth century. Her new project focuses on the impact of technology in Latin American literature during periods of historical transition, including the shift from bourgeois to modern and postmodern mass cultures.

Areas of Expertise

• Cultural Studies
• Film and Media
• Literature

Methodology

• Archival Methods
• Mixed Methods
• Qualitative Methods