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Dr. Nayibe Inocencia Bermudez-Barrios

PhD
Pronouns: She/Her

Contact information

Phone number

Office: +1 (403) 220-8223

Location

Office: CHD320

I'm looking for...

Research partners

I am looking for partnerships in cinema offering opportunities for learning, exchange, and funding, and research partners interested in creating panels on cinema, book anthologies, and edited books.

Learning opportunities

I am looking for MA and PhD students with a research interest in all aspects of film production and the analysis of television series and novels. 

Background

Educational Background

Doctor of Philosophy Spanish: Twentieth Century Spanish-American Literature, University of Kansas, 2004

M.A. Spanish and Spanish-American Literature, University of Arkansas, 1996

B.A. Translation & Interpret, Moscow State Linguistics University, 1988

Research

Areas of Research

Latin American Cinemas, Literatures, Popular Culture

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
SPAN 201 Beginners' Spanish I Fall 2024
SPAN 203 Beginners' Spanish II Winter 2023

Awards

  • Nominated for a 2020-2021 Students’ Union Teaching Excellence Award., University of Calgary. 2021

Publications

  • Country Club” and Global City in The Widows of Thursday by Claudia Piñeiro.. Nayibe I. Bermúdez Barrios. The Latin Americanist, vol. 66 num. 2. 147-169. (2022)
  • Latin American Cinemas: Local Views and Transnational Connections. Nayibe I. Bermúdez Barrios. Calgary: University of Calgary Press. (2011)
  • Sujetos transnacionales: la negociación en cine y literatura. Nayibe I. Bermúdez Barrios. Colección In Extenso 10. Ciudad Juárez: Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. (2009)

More Information

2018: Faculty of Arts Travel Grant ($1,000) to present “Espacios transnacionales en la narrativa de Claudia

Piñeiro.” Campus de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, June 12-15.

“Sounding Uncanny Affect: Time and Space in Lucrecia Martel’s Zama

La cara oculta (Andy Baiz, 2011): género cinematográfico y cine trasnacional.” Invited presentation. Eventos

Uninorte en Verano, Universidad del Norte. Barranquilla, June 21, 2018.

2019: Fuentes-Doria, Deivi, Aníbal Toscano, et al. “Sostenibilidad empresarial: una revisión documental en el contexto de las pequeñas y medianas empresas a nivel mundial” translated as “Enterprise Sustainability: Literature Review in the Context of SMEs Worldwide.” October.

2023 Vich, Cynthia, and Sarah Barrow, eds. Peruvian Cinema of the Twenty-First Century: Dynamic and Unstable Grounds. Springer Nature, 2020. Forthcoming.

2024: “Los villanos de la prensa en el cine hispanoamericano a través de las películas de Pedro Almodóvar y de Francisco J. Lombardi.” Article for Imagofagia, Sept.

 

2020: “Melodrama y exceso en el discurso de ficción televisiva: una visión diádica.” Article for Balajú, Revista de Cultura y Comunicación de la Universidad Veracruzana, Nov.

“So Many Bolívars: The Liberator in Recent Venezuelan and Colombian Cinema and Fiction.” Article for Cincinnati Romance Review. July.

“Inmigración y transculturación en Novia que te vea de Rosa Nissán.” Article for Revista Connotas. May.

 

2019: The Persistence of Vision of Argentine Filmmaker Eliseo Subiela. Book manuscript, for McFarland Publishing. Dec.

“Play of Gazes and Sex Acts in Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Color (2013).” Article for Interlingua Journal. August.

 

2017: “From Girlhood to Adulthood: Colombian Adolescence in María, llena eres de gracia and La sirga.” Article for Girlhood Studies: an Interdisciplinary Journal. March.

2024 ““Netflix, Uruguay, and the Western: What about National Cinema?” Permanent Global Film Panel, Midwest Modern Language Conference, Chicago, Illinois. November 14-16.

2023 “A Uruguayan Construction of Social and Racial Cohesion in Togo’s (2022) Use of Westen Tropes.” Permanent Global Film Panel, Midwest Modern Language Conference, Chicago, Illinois. November 2-4. Remote presentation.

2022: " New Trends in Transnational Cinemas: Latin American Dystopias and Affective Forms of Neo-Extractivism." Permanent Global Film Panel, Midwest Modern Language Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November. Remote presentation.

2021: “Author Politics and Immaterial Labour in Lucrecia Martel’s Zama (2017).” Teaching Women’s Filmmaking Conference, Istanbul Bilgi University, Department of Film and Television, 16-17 April. Remote presentation.

2020: ““Country Club” and Global City in The Widows of Thursday by Claudia Piñeiro.” Cercle Benveniste, University of Calgary, CHD 420, February 28.

2018: “Espacios transnacionales en la narrativa de Claudia Piñeiro.” XLII Congreso IILI, Departamento de Literatura de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana y el Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI). Campus de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, June 12-15.

“Las tretas de la razón Neo-Noir en el filme Tesis sobre un homicidio.” XIV Congreso de novela y cine negro: un género sin límites. Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, April 24-27.

2021: “Zoom in on Cinemas,” Facebook virtual meetings with students and film specialists from Calgary, Colombia, Iran, and Mexico. February-June. In five 95-minute sessions I lead the discussion on Latin American contemporary films. 15 participants.