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Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz

Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz(Ph.D., University of Iowa), is the author of the books Pedro Almodóvar (BFI, 2007) and Buñuel and Mexico: The Crisis of National Cinema (University of California Press, 2003) and winner of the 2007 Leslie & Woody Eaton Faculty Award for Excellence in Research in the Humanities & the Arts. Prof. Acevedo-Muñoz has received teaching recognitions from the CU Parents Association and the National Residence Hall Academic Program, and was a co-winner of the Vice Chancellor's Diversity and Equity award. At CU he teaches film theory, film & literature, Latin American and Spanish cinemas & culture, Hollywood genres, and courses on Luis Buñuel & Pedro Almodóvar, Stanley Kubrick, and Alfred Hitchcock. Professor Acevedo-Muñoz's work has appeared in Quarterly Review of Film & Video, Film & History, Literature Interpretation Theory, After Hitchcock, Contemporary Spanish Cinema and Genre, Authorship in Film Adaptation, Healing Cultures, Buñuel Siglo XXI and Genre, Gender, Race & World Cinema. Professor Acevedo-Muñoz has lectured and spoken in meetings and conferences in the U.S., the U.K., Spain, Mexico, Canada, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico, his native country. A graduate of the University of Puerto Rico (B.A. 1991) and the University of Iowa (M.A. 1994, Ph.D. 1998), Prof. Acevedo-Muñoz also studied in the film production workshop at New York University in Manhattan. He has taught at New York University in Madrid, Spain, and at the Cine Club Universitario of the State University of Zulia in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Prof. Acevedo-Muñoz has been at the University of Colorado since 1998 and holds a joint membership with the Department of Comparative Literature & Humanities. He is currently making a movie called Hillmon's Bones, writing a book tentatively entitled The Most Beautiful Sound That I Ever Heard: West Side Story and researching a book on questions of film theory in Latin American cinemas.

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