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Research Interests

• I study how people collaborate in their own domination, with a focus on authoritarianism in Latin America and Russia. I am the author of Fathers, Masculinity and Authoritarianism in Latin American Cinema (2025).

Current projects:

• Book on the representation of authoritarian mothers in the Americas.
• Series of articles on how gamification and algorithmic control in food delivery apps like DoorDash foster compulsive engagement and accelerate the precarization of work.

Recent Publications

Book(s):  , University of Florida Press, 2025

Articles:

• “Freedom, Free Market, and Precarious Jobs in Chile in the Film Adaptation of Subterra,”Latin American Perspectives, forthcoming
• Dzero, Irina. “Under-the-Skin Cinema: Alejandro Jodorowsky Tells Abject Secrets,” Film International, 2024
• “Indifference in Recent Russian Films: The Gulag Face of Cruelty Returns,” Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 2024
• “Failed Democratic Transitions: Clientelism and Hand-Kissing in Contemporary Mexican Film.” Periphērica, 2022.
• “Fly in the Soup: Gibberish in Russia as Aesthetic Resistance,” Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 2021
• “Pussy Riot and Translatability of Cultures,” Transcultural Studies, 2017
• “La fiesta del chivo, Novel and Film, on the Transition to Democracy in Latin America,”Latin American Research Review, 2016