{"id":1408,"date":"2016-10-04T14:25:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T18:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/stephanie-m-pridgeon\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:07:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:07:51","slug":"stephanie-m-pridgeon","status":"publish","type":"faculty-profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/stephanie-m-pridgeon\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie M. Pridgeon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephanie Pridgeon (Ph.D., Emory University) specializes in 20th<\/sup>– and 21st<\/sup>-century Latin American film and literature; her research focuses on the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and politics as depicted in recent cultural productions. Her first book,\u00a0 Revolutionary Visions: Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film<\/a><\/em>, was published by University of Toronto Press. Click here<\/a> to listen to an interview with the New Books Network about Revolutionary Visions<\/em>. In 2022, Revolutionary Visions<\/em> was awarded Honorable Mention for the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Visual Culture Studies section book prize. Revolutionary Visions<\/em> has been reviewed by: Talia Dajes, Hispanic Research Journal<\/em><\/a>, Ariana Huberman, Revista de Estudios Hisp\u00e1nicos<\/em><\/a>, Claire Solomon, Latin American Literary Review<\/em><\/a>, and Raanan Rein, Jewish Film and New Media<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Pridgeon’s second book, Absorption Narratives: Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity in the Cultural Imaginary of the Americas<\/a><\/em>, was published in 2025 by University of Toronto Press. Absorption Narratives<\/em> was the subject of a recent podcast interview with New Books Network. Click here<\/a> to listen.<\/p>\n

She is currently working on a third book analyzing the role of visual imagery of the Mexican Revolution (photography and muralism) in 20th- and 21st-century Latin American literature.<\/p>\n

Refereed Articles and Book Chapters:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Aging as Rewriting: Liliana Heker’s\u00a0Noticias sobre el iceberg<\/em> (2024)” Forthcoming in Hispanic Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Writing Settler Relations: Jewish Literary Engagement With Indigenous Themes in Argentina and Canada.” (Co-authored with David Koffman). Promised Lands North and South: Jewish Argentina and Jewish Canada Compared <\/a><\/em> Eds. David S. Koffman and David M.K. Sheinin. Brill, 2024. pp. 177-192.<\/p>\n

“Encuentros desafectados en Los perros<\/em> de Marcela Said. Encuentros fortuitos: agencialidad en conflicto y poder en movimiento en el cine hispano<\/a><\/em> Eds. Inela Selimovi\u0107 and Jorge Gonz\u00e1lez del Pozo. Iberoamericana, 2023. pp. 189-210.<\/p>\n

“Jewish Guatemalan Fiction in a Global Context.”\u00a0Teaching Central American Literature in a Global Context<\/a><\/em>. Eds. Gloria Chac\u00f3n and M\u00f3nica Albiz\u00farez. MLA Options for Teaching. 2022<\/p>\n

“Queering Ethnic Rites of Passage: Transparent<\/em> and One Day at a Time<\/em><\/a>.” MELUS: Multiethnic Literatures of the United States.<\/em> 2022<\/p>\n

“Mujeres errantes: Cuerpo, g\u00e9nero y pol\u00edtica en el cine jud\u00edo latinoamericano.<\/a>”\u00a0Latin American Jewish Studies<\/em> 1.1 (2022): 35-48.<\/p>\n

“The Montoneros and the Jewish Question in Argentine Fiction.<\/a>”\u00a0Armed Jews in the Americas<\/em>. Eds. Raanan Rein and David Sheinin. Brill. 2021. pp. 222-46.<\/p>\n

“Redirected Utopias: The Politics of Self-Reflexive Documentary in Albertina Carri’s\u00a0Los rubios<\/em> and Ufuk Emiroglu’s\u00a0Mon p\u00e8re, la r\u00e9volution et moi<\/em>.<\/a>”\u00a0Studies in Documentary Film\u00a0<\/em> 16.1 (2022): 68-82.<\/p>\n

“Casas tomadas: Leopoldo Brizuela’s\u00a0Una misma noche<\/em><\/a>.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies\u00a0<\/em>29.2 (2020): 291-309.<\/p>\n

“‘The Kindness of Strangers’: Kinship and Intertextuality in\u00a0Todo sobre mi madre<\/em> and\u00a0Una suerte peque\u00f1a<\/em>.<\/a>” (Co-authored with Katherine Ostrom, Emory University) Bulletin of Contemporary Hispanic Studies\u00a0<\/em>2.1 (2020): 69-84.<\/p>\n

\u201cMetamorphoses of 1968: The Israeli-Palestinian Question in Tom\u00e1s Abraham\u2019s La <\/em>dificultad<\/em>.<\/a>\u201d Latin American Perspectives\u00a0<\/em>46.3 (May 2019)<\/p>\n

\u201cSilences Between Jewishness and Indigeneity in Eduardo Halfon\u2019s Ma\u00f1ana nunca lo <\/em>hablamos<\/em>.<\/a>\u201d Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hisp\u00e1nicos <\/em>42.1 (2017): 99-121.<\/p>\n

\u201cLa biblioteca de la militancia revolucionaria: Archivo y retaguardia en El esp\u00edritu de mis <\/em>padres sigue subiendo en la lluv<\/em>i<\/em>a<\/em> de Patricio Pron.<\/a>\u201d Hispanic Studies Review<\/em> 2.2 (2017): 208-233.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Yo creo que termin\u00e9 todas mis guerras\u2019: Friendship and Politics between Jews and Non-Jews in Jeanine Meerapfel\u2019s El amigo alem\u00e1n<\/em>.<\/a>\u201d Revista de Estudios Hisp\u00e1nicos<\/em> 51.1 (2017): 101-125. DOI: 10.1353\/rvs.2017.0005<\/p>\n

\u201cExposing Mechanisms of Truth and Memory: Regimes of Truth in 21st<\/sup>-century Latin American Documentary: Autobiography, Testimonial Language, and the Politics of Production<\/a>.\u201d alter\/nativas: latin american cultural studies journal <\/em>6 (Spring 2016).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Revolution\u2019s Neverending Stories: Liliana Heker\u2019s El fin de la historia<\/em>.<\/a>\u201d\u00a0Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies<\/em> 25.1 (2016): 83-103 DOI: 10.1080\/13569325.2015.1091298<\/p>\n

Public scholarship<\/strong>
\n“Claudia Sheinbaum will be North America\u2019s first Jewish head of state. What will it take to elect a second?<\/a>” The Forward<\/em> Opinion. 6 June 2024.<\/p>\n

Book Reviews, Review Essays, Encyclopedia Entries<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Poetry-Film Nexus in Latin America: Exploring Intermediality on Screen and Page. Eds. Ben Bollig and David M.J. Wood. Hispanic Research Journal<\/em> (Forthcoming)<\/p>\n

“Jewish-Latino Literature<\/a>” Oxford Bibliographies in Latino Studies<\/em>. 2023<\/p>\n

Caribbean Jewish Crossings: Literary History and Creative Practice. Eds. Sarah Phillips Casteel and Heidi Kaufman. Latin American Jewish Studies<\/em> 1.2 (Fall 2022)<\/p>\n

Portrayals of Jews in Contemporary Argentine Cinema: Rethinking Argentinidad<\/em><\/a>. Mirna Vohnsen. Rev. Revista de Estudios Hisp\u00e1nicos 54.3, 881-82.<\/p>\n

Di\u00e1logo de voces: Nuevas lecturas de la obra de Mar\u00eda Rosa Lojo<\/em><\/a>. Ed. Marcela Crespo Buitur\u00f3n. Rev. Revista de Estudios Hisp\u00e1nicos\u00a0<\/em>54.2, 616-18<\/p>\n

Contested Identities in Costa Rica: Constructions of the Tico in Literature and Film<\/em><\/a>. Liz Harvey-Kattou. Rev. Bulletin of Spanish Studies<\/em>, Vol. 97<\/p>\n

Screening Subjects: Gender and (Trans)Nationalism in Latin American Film and Literature.<\/a>\u00a0Chasqui\u00a0<\/em>48.2 (2019), R15-R24. (Review Essay)<\/p>\n

\u201cHere We Are to Build a Nation: Recent Jewish Latin American Documentaries<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Latin American Research Review<\/em>\u00a053.3 (2018): 627-631. (Review essay)<\/p>\n

Escribir el espacio ausente: Exilio y cultura nacional en D\u00edaz, Wajsman y Bola\u00f1o<\/em><\/a>. Antonio G\u00f3mez. Rev. Revista de Estudios Hisp\u00e1nicos<\/em>. 51.1 (2017) 199-201. DOI: 10.1353\/rvs.2017.0014<\/p>\n

\u201cLatin American Solidarity with Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.<\/a>\u201d Encyclopedia of Latin American <\/em>Religions<\/em>. Ed. Henri Gooren, Springer (2017)
\nDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-319-08956-0_269-1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":899,"featured_media":3318,"template":"","class_list":["post-1408","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","expertise-cultural-studies","expertise-feminist-theory","expertise-gender-and-sexuality","expertise-jewish-studies","expertise-latin-america","expertise-literary-theory","expertise-marxist-theory","expertise-memory-studies","expertise-political-culture","expertise-race-and-ethnicity","expertise-specific-20th-and-21st-century-latin-american-literature-and-film","expertise-specific-documentary","expertise-specific-testimony","what-i-teach-specific-latin-american-women-writers-advanced-spanish-writing-spanish-latin-american-jewish-film-protest-and-resistance-music-and-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/899"}],"version-history":[{"count":95,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7489,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/1408\/revisions\/7489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}