Pedro Noel Doreste Rodríguez is Assistant Professor in Film Studies at Michigan State University and Co-Director of the Manchineel Project. He is a historian of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx film and media whose research surveys cinematic encounters between the global North and South, diasporic and exile filmmaking, and avant-garde film cultures in and of the Hispanic Caribbean. His work has appeared in Reception, Aniki, Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas, Alphaville, and in the edited collection Latinx Media. He is coeditor of the anthology “Vivirse la película: Methods in Puerto Rican Film Studies,” forthcoming from Centro Press.