Nancy Membrez

I am a professor-scholar of Modern Spanish Literature, Culture and Film as well as Latin American cinemas. I have published the anthologies of critical essays —The Cinematic Art of Eliseo Subiela, Argentine Filmmaker (Mellen, 2007), Eliseo Subiela, the Poet of Latin American Cinema (Mellen, 2014), Memory in World Cinema (McFarland, 2019), the anthology War, Revolution and Remembrance in World Cinema (2021) and the monograph Eliseo Subiela in Life and Cinema: The Persistence of Vision in 2022 (McFarland). I'm also an independent filmmaker (Point at the Moon Productions Inc.). My first feature film, which I wrote, directed and edited, won Best Picture and Best Soundtrack at the International Filmmakers' Film Festival in Kent, England in 2008. I continue to make short subjects whenever I can. They may be seen at Vimeo.com/nancymembrez.I split my time between teaching Spanish literature, culture or film courses (or a Latin American film course: Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Andean) and formerly taught digital filmmaking  for 20 years at the University of Texas at San Antonio. In writing about 19th-20th century theater and early Spanish film for my dissertation,  I became interested in pursuing film research as well as film production. My 1987 Ph.D. dissertation on the Teatro por horas has been widely cited. I intend to revise, update and translate it into Spanish for publication when my current projects wind up.
Address: San Antonio, Texas, United States