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Personal profile
Research interests
My research focuses on 20th- and 21st-century Latin American film and visual culture, with a particular emphasis on the countries of the Southern Cone and, more recently, Peru and Bolivia.
My first monograph, Remaking Home: Domestic Spaces in Argentine and Chilean Film, 2005-2015 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022), explores the political potential of domestic space in recent filmmaking. From February 2021 to July 2022, I held an AHRC Leadership Fellowship, working on the project 'Reimagining the Pacific: Images of the Ocean in Chile and Peru, c.1960 to the Present'.
I am interested in how cinema relates to other visual media, in the shifting critical frameworks of Latin American studies, and in the intersections between postcolonial theory and the environmental humanities. I am a co-editor (with Lucy Bollington) of Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human (University of Florida Press, 2020), which analyses how discourses of humanism and posthumanism have operated in - and have been shaped by - a wide range of literary and visual cultures in the region.
Research supervision
I welcome enquiries from prospective research students in any area of Latin American cultural studies, particularly those interested in pursuing research in the following areas:
- Latin American film (especially from Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Peru)
- ecological approaches to cinema and visual media
- urban and domestic spaces
- postcolonial and decolonial theory
Structured keywords and research groupings
- Cabot Institute Water Research
- Centre for Environmental Humanities
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Navigating Time in the Anthropocene
Merchant, P., Thomas, N. & Arends, B.
5/03/21 → 31/07/21
Project: Research
Research output
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Remaking Home: Domestic Spaces in Argentine and Chilean Film, 2005-2015
Merchant, P., 11 Jan 2022, University of Pittsburgh Press.Research output: Book/Report › Authored book
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Latin American Culture and the Limits of the Human
Merchant, P. (ed.) & Bollington, L. (ed.), 21 Apr 2020, Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. 304 p.Research output: Book/Report › Edited book
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‘Collecting what the sea gives back’: Postcolonial Ecologies of the Ocean in Contemporary Chilean Film
Merchant, P., 1 Apr 2022, In: Bulletin of Latin American Research. 41, 2, p. 209-226Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Prizes
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Honorable Mention, Best Article Prize (Film Section)
Merchant, Paul (Recipient), May 2022
Prize: Prizes, Medals, Awards and Grants
Activities
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Gisela Heffes
Paul Merchant (Host)
1 May 2023 → 1 Jun 2023Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor
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Cátedra SLAS
Paul Merchant (Speaker)
8 Nov 2021 → 11 Nov 2021Activity: Other activity types › - Research and Teaching at External Organisation
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Environmental Humanities Visiting Research Fellowship
Paul Merchant (Speaker)
1 Sept 2021 → 31 Oct 2021Activity: Other activity types › Fellowship awarded competitively