Nils Longueira Borrego

B.A. Art History, Suma Cum Laude, University of Havana, 2015.

M.A. Spanish and Portuguese & Film and Media Studies, Yale University, 2019. 

Bio

Nils Longueira Borrego is a Ph.D. candidate in the joint program in Film and Media Studies and Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University. His dissertation “The Impossible Totality: Labor and the Emergence of Collective Identities in South American Cultural Production” addresses the emergence of collective identities in Argentinian and Brazilian cultural production from the 1910s to the late 1950s. 

He has been awarded the Rome Seminar Fellowship (2020) by University of Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway for his research project about Latin American filmmakers’ presence in Rome. He has also been invited as a film critic/journalist to the Talents Press Guadalajara, Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG30-Berlinale Talents, Berlin International Film Festival and FIPRESCI, 2015).

Research Interests

Documentary film; Latin American cinema; Third Cinema; populism and cinema; film theory; Marxism and film; Latin American filmmakers in Italy during the 1950s; global socialist realism; South American social literature; Caribbean literature; Cuban literature of the exile; art and dissidence.