Stephanie Pridgeon (Ph.D., Emory University) teaches in Hispanic Studies and Latin American and Latinx Studies. In addition to teaching beginning and intermediate language and culture courses she has designed and taught courses on: gender and sexuality in Latin American literature, Jewish Latin American Cinema, protest and resistance music and poetry, revolution and civil war, and testimonial literature and film.

Specializing in 20th– and 21st-century Latin American film and literature, her research focuses on the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and politics as depicted in recent cultural productions. Her first book,  Revolutionary Visions: Jewish Life and Politics in Latin American Film, was published by University of Toronto Press. Click here to listen to an interview with the New Books Network about Revolutionary Visions. In 2022, Revolutionary Visions was awarded Honorable Mention for the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Visual Culture Studies section book prize. Her second book, under contract with University of Toronto Press, explores Jewishness in relation to Blackness and Indigeneity throughout the Americas.

Professor Pridgeon serves on the Board of the Maine Jewish Film Festival (MJFF) and on the Modern Language Association Global Jewish forum.