Tormos Presents at NeMLA
Edgardo Tormos, a fifth year student in our doctoral program in Hispanic Language & Literatures program, presented a paper titled “Reveling in Filth: Ecocriticism & Biopolitics in Independent Mexican Cinema of the 1970s” at the 2020 annual convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA). Tormos’s paper was part of the panel “Biopolitics of Nature: Artistic Representations of Environment in Latin America (Part 2).” His paper explores how independent Mexican films of the seventies represent the body among waste as a modality of civil, cultural insurgency against the ethics and aesthetics of the Mexican State and its institutionalized revolution.