Cristina Venegas

Cristina Venegas is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. Her writing and teaching focus on film and media history and theory of film with an emphasis on Latin American and the Caribbean. She is the author of Digital Dilemmas: The State, the Individual and Digital Culture in Cuba (Rutgers, 2010), a Choice Book Award recipient, Digital Activism, Community Media and Sustainable Communication in Latin America (Palgrave, 2020), as well as numerous essays on Cuban and Latin American media. With Patrice Petro she co-edits the Media Matters book series for Rutgers University Press. For over twenty years, she has curated film programs at various institutions and was co-founder of the highly successful Latino CineMedia Film Festival in Santa Barbara, which she directed from 2004-2011. Currently, she is completing the book Julio García Espinosa and the Imperfect Imagination and the documentary film Mapping Alzheimer's.