Iliana Alcántar

Visiting Scholar

Mexican literary and cultural studies; contemporary Latin American literature and cinema; gender and trauma studies.

PhD 2006 University of California, Los Angeles.
Reed College 2007–.

Iliana holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from UCLA, and is a member of the intercampus research group UC-Mexicanistas. She specializes in Mexican literary and cultural studies, and her research interests include gender, film, and trauma studies, focusing on representations of gender and re-articulations of trauma and memory in Latin American film and literature. She has written articles on the works of Carmen Boullosa, Carlos Fuentes, and Elena Poniatowska, among others, and about Mexican film, particularly, on the cinematography of Maria Novaro and Carlos Enrique Taboada. Iliana has taught at different universities in California, New York, and Oregon to students with various aptitudes.