Office Hours
AU22 Student Meeting Hours Mondays 11a–2p
Schedule a meeting time at https://calendly.com/profchavez
Areas of Expertise
- Film Studies
- Latinx/Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Literary and Cultural Studies
- Decolonial and Transnational Approaches
Education
- PhD, English, The Ohio State University
- AM, Humanities, University of Chicago
- BA, English, The Ohio State University
Dr. Mercedes Chavez is a decolonial scholar of transnational cinemas. Her dissertation, Origin Stories focuses on cinematic counter-narratives and counter-visualities of the Global South, reading settler colonialism, extractive capitalism, and race in producing the Anthropocene. Her publication, "Vernacular Landscapes: Reading the Anthropocene in the Films of Kelly Reichardt," Spring 2021 Afterimage with UC Presses, engages decolonial and Indigenous approaches to neo-Westerns. Other research presentations have included "Atomic Heritage: Nuclear Culture and the Nuclear Family in Northern New Mexico" (American Folklore Society, 2018), and "Memoria: Cinema and Memory in the Nonfiction Films of Natalia Almada," (Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2022).
