Luisela Alvaray is an Associate Professor at DePaul University. She specializes in Latin American cinema, transnational cinemas, cultural studies, documentary studies, and film historiography. Alvaray’s research has been published in journals such as Cinema Journal, Cultural Dynamics, Communication Teacher, Transnational Cinemas, Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, Transnational Screens, and Film & History. She is also a contributor to The Routledge Companion to Latin-American Cinemas, as well as Global Cinema Networks, Latin American Melodrama, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, and Latin American Screens: A Handbook, among other compilations.