Iliana Pagán-Teitelbaum

Iliana Pagán-Teitelbaum is from Puerto Rico. She directed and edited "Twin Tongues: Learning English in América," a nonfiction film about the politics of bilingualism and identity in the Hispanic community of Philadelphia (in post-production). She is an Associate Professor of Languages and Cultures at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on Latin American film, cultural studies, and Spanish. She obtained a BA in Latin American Studies at the University of Puerto Rico. She has a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University, and was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Caribbean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is Co-chair of the Greater Philadelphia Latin American Studies Consortium (GPLASC). Her research is multimodal and focuses on cultural representations of inequality and violence in the Americas.