Dr. Jorge Pérez

Biography

Jorge Pérez is a Professor of Iberian Literatures and Cultures at the University of Texas at Austin, where he serves as the Department Chair of Spanish Portuguese within the College of Liberal Arts. He received his Ph.D. degree in Hispanic Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Pérez is a renowned author, with significant works including 'Cultural Roundabouts: Spanish Film Novel Road' (Bucknell 2011), 'Confessional Cinema: Religion, Film, Modernity Spain’s Development Years' (University of Toronto Press, 2017), and 'Fashioning Spanish Cinema: Costume, Identity, Stardom' (University of Toronto Press, 2021). Additionally, he co-edited 'Latin American Road Movie' (Palgrave, 2016). His publications appear in various prestigious journals, including ALEC, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, and Spanish Cultural Studies. Pérez supervises doctoral students and focuses on topics such as race, migration in Spanish media, queer cinema, and videogame cultures in Spain. Currently, he is working on a book tentatively titled 'Celebrity Culture Media Spain,' which examines the formation of a new paradigm of stardom within the film industry and its connection to celebrity culture in the fashion industry throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.

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