Susan Martin-Márquez specializes in Spanish, Latin American, and "world" cinema. She has served for thirteen of the last twenty years as director of the Cinema Studies Program at Rutgers.
Professor Martin-Márquez is the author of Sight Unseen: Feminist Discourse in Spanish Cinema (Oxford University Press, 1999) and numerous cinema studies articles and book chapters on topics ranging from haptic film theory, revolutionary film manifestos, and theoretical eurocentrism to the work of women film editors, Spanish colonial cinema in Africa, and explorations of films by directors such as Pedro Almodóvar, Sara Gómez, Luis Buñuel, Isabel Coixet, and Leopoldo Torre-Nilsson. She was awarded an NEH Fellowship for her book project Radical Filmmakers at the Transatlantic Crossroads: New Cinemas and Networks of Exchange in the Long 1960s. Published articles related to that study include “Engendering Ethnographic Filmmaking in Francoist Spain: Hysteria and the Queer Forest of Far from the Trees" (in Screen); “Screening (Out) the Isle of Pines Youth Work Camps: Sara Gómez’s 1960sDocumentary Trilogy and the Racialized Legacy of Cuban Penal Deportation" (in the edited volume Framing the Penal Colony); “Coloniality and the Trappings of Modernity in Viridiana and The Hand in the Trap” (in Cinema Journal); and "By Camera and by Gun: Joris Ivens and the Radicalization of Latin American Filmmakers" (in Ivens Magazine). She is a contributor to the forthcoming Cinema and the Mediation of Everyday Life: An Oral History of Cinema-Going in 1940s and 1950s Spain, which elucidates how filmgoing enabled Spaniards to cope with material hardship and political repression during the Franco dictatorship.
Professor Martin-Márquez also specializes in Spanish imperial cultural history, with a particular focus on the legacy of Modern-era colonialism in Africa and the Caribbean. She is the author of Disorientations: Spanish Colonialism in Africa and the Performance of Identity (Yale University Press, 2008; Spanish translation in Bellaterra, 2011), and she is now completing her latest book, Jail-Breaking the Carceral Atlantic: Cuban Rebellion, Political Deportation, and Racialization in the Late Spanish Empire.