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Bruno Guaraná

Master Lecturer, Film & Television

Pronouns: He/Him

About Bruno Guaraná

Dr. Bruno Guaraná is originally from Recife, Brazil, and has earned his PhD degree in Cinema Studies from New York University. He has taught film and media for over a decade at New York University, Brooklyn College, and Baruch College, and has guest lectured at Columbia University and Connecticut College. His doctoral dissertation adopts an intersectional framework to investigate the negotiations of cultural citizenship in contemporary Brazilian cinema, television, and peripheral media. His research and teaching interests include Latin American and Brazilian Cinema; Documentary Studies; Media, Identity, and Representation; and Childhood and Youth in Films. Dr. Guaraná currently edits the “Page Views” column for Film Quarterly, for which he’s constantly looking for new and groundbreaking books in the field to introduce them to new readers and interview authors about their research.

Education

  • PhD, Cinema Studies, New York University
  • MPhil, Cinema Studies, New York University
  • Graduate Certificate in Culture and Media, Anthropology/Cinema Studies, New York University
  • MA, Film, Columbia University
  • BA, Film Studies and Production, Hofstra University