Elizabeth Ramírez-Soto

Elizabeth Ramírez-Soto is a film and media historian whose areas of research include transnational cinema and television, feminist film histories, and documentary. She is interested in looking at the interconnections of political violence, forced migration, and transnational modes of production, focusing on Latin America.

She is the author of (Un)veiling Bodies: A Trajectory of Chilean Post-Dictatorship Documentary (Legenda, 2019) and coeditor of Nomadías: El cine de Marilú Mallet, Valeria Sarmiento y Angelina Vázquez (Metales Pesados, 2016). Elizabeth is the coeditor of several special issues, including “Latin American Feminist Film and Visual Art Collectives” for Jump Cut (2022) and “Guerrilla Archiving: Documents for a Feminist History of Latin American Cinemas,” forthcoming in Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas.

Her work has appeared in such journals as Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Feminist Media Histories and [in]Transition, as well as in numerous edited collections in the United States, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, and Cuba.

Two of her latest projects are “Chilean Film & Media Fifty Years Later (1973/2023),” a special focus section co-edited for Film Quarterly (Fall 2023), and “Chile 1973/2023,” a collaborative effort that included film screenings, exhibitions, and dialogues to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Pinochet’s military coup, which took place across various NYC venues. She is currently working on a book tentatively titled Transnational Experimental Television: The Global South on European Screens, for which she received a Summer Stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a François Chevalier Fellowship from the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study and Casa de Velázquez. She is co-founder of Red de investigación del Audiovisual hecho por Mujeres en América Latina, RAMA.

Before joining Columbia University, she worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University and the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University.

Elizabeth received her Ph.D. in Film and Television Studies from the University of Warwick in the U.K. She also holds a European MA in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies from the Institute of Education, University of London and Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3.