Doctoral Student Public Humanities Fellow
Doctoral Student, Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts
José Miguel Palacios is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. Prior to his work at NYU, he earned an M.A. in Film Studies from Columbia University and a B.A. in Film & TV from Universidad Uniacc in Santiago, Chile. His research interests include cinema and memory, exile and diaspora, the history of Latin American cinema, and theories and practices of militant documentaries. His dissertation deals with the aesthetics, production, circulation, and repatriation of Chilean exile films, focusing on their transnational networks of solidarity, on how they negotiate an exilic subjectivity, and on the significance of this corpus for Chile’s cultural memory in the context of postdictatorship. His writings have appeared in Revista de Comunicación y Medios, La Fuga, The Brooklyn Rail, and in the collectionsNew Documentaries in Latin America(Palgrave, 2014) and Cinematic Homecomings: Exile and Return in Transnational Cinema (Bloomsbury, forthcoming).