Tulane University

A long-standing faculty member of the Stone Center, Ana M. López became the director of the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute in Fall 2000. She is also an Associate Professor in the Communication Department and Associate Provost of the university. Her scholarship and publications are focused on Latin American film, media, television, and popular culture. She has also worked extensively with Latino cultural production in the U.S. Her work has been widely published in film and Latin American studies journals and she is the co-editor of the volumes Mediating Two Worlds (BFI, 1993), The Ethnic Eye: Latino Media Arts (University of Minnesota, 1996), and the three-volume Encyclopedia of Latin American Culture (Routledge, 2000). As director of the Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute, she oversees the Summer in Cuba program, the Summer in the Dominican Republic program, and academic and cultural programming aimed at promoting a true Cuban and Caribbean presence on Tulane’s campus.

Degrees

• B.A., Queens College, Accounting, 1978
• M.A., University of Iowa, Communication and Theater Arts, 1982
• Ph.D., University of Iowa, Communication Studies, 1986

Academic Experience

• Associate Professor, Tulane University
• Assistant Professor, Tulane University
• Visiting Professor, University of Southern California, 1995

Research & Teaching Specializations: Latin America; Mass Communication; Latin American Film; Cultural Studies, Popular Culture

Related Experience

• Associate Provost, Office of Academic Affairs, Tulane University, 2001-
• Director, Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute, Tulane University, 2000-
• Co-editor, South, an electronic Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 1996-
• Co-Director, Cultural Studies Program, Tulane University, 1992-1999
• Director, Film Studies Program, Tulane University, 1988-

Distinctions

• Fulbright Fellowship, 1989

Languages: Spanish; Portuguese; French

Selected Publications

• Forthcoming 2010. “La Hacienda y el Cabaret: Musical Spaces of the Classical Mexican Cinema.” In The International Film Musical. Corey Creekmuer and Linda Mokdad, eds. University of Edinburgh Press.
• 2009. “Before the Industry: Orol, Bohr and Peon.” In Latsploitation: Exploitation Cinema and Latin America. Victoria Ruetalo and Dolores Tierney, eds. London: Routledge.
• 2007. “Cuba: A Porous National Cinema.” In The Cinema of Small Nations. Duncan Petrie and Mette Hijorst, eds. University of Edinburgh Press. 179 – 197.
• 2000. Latin American Cultural Studies. Editor, with Daniel Balderston and Mike Gonzalez. London: Routledge.
• 2000. “Early Cinema and Modernity in Latin America.” Cinema Journal. 40: 48-78.

Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses: Latin American Cinema, Cuban Culture and Society, Culture and Society in the Dominican Republic.

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 9