Interview with Carmelo Estrrich
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Carmelo Estrrich (he/him) is from San Juan, Puerto Rico. He earned a BA in Film Studies and an MA in Spanish from the Pennsylvania State University and a PhD in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He taught a study abroad course in Mexico before arriving at Columbia College Chicago, where he became one of the founders of the Cultural Studies program. He is currently an Associate Professor of Humanities and teaches Spanish, History, and Interdisciplinary Humanities. Hsi research focuses on cultural and artistic production in Latin America and his writings are included in Spanish writing and vocabulary textbooks. Most notably, Estrrich wrote Star Wars Multiverse during the COVID pandemic. In it, he explores real world parallels that can be drawn from the fictional narrative, including topics such as discrimination, xenophobia, and systematic oppression. He is an active voice in the Chicago Latino community, having been the faculty advisor for the Latino Alliance since 1998. He currently is a committee member of the Chicago Latino Film Festival. Length: 63:51 minutes. Transcript: 24 pages.
Publication Date
2022
Publisher
Columbia College Chicago
City
Chicago
Keywords
higher education, students, Cultural Studies, history, film, Puerto Rico, Chicago, Star Wars
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Arts and Humanities | Education | Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Midwa, Peter, "Interview with Carmelo Estrrich" (2022). College Oral Histories, 2022. 3.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/ohx2022/3
Comments
This interview was conducted by graduate student Peter Midwa, and is part of the Oral History of Columbia College Chicago project documenting the history of this Chicago, Illinois institution. The biography and interview abstract were composed by undergraduate student Sydney Shelly.