Elizabeth Ramírez-Soto

Dr. Ramírez-Soto researches on transnational film and media practices, feminist film history, 

and documentary. She is the author of (Un)veiling Bodies: A Trajectory of Chilean Post- Dictatorship Documentary (Legenda, 2019) and co-editor of Nomadías: El cine de Marilú Mallet, Valeria Sarmiento y Angelina Vázquez (Metales Pesados, 2016). Her work has appeared in journals like Film Quarterly, Feminist Media Histories, and Jump Cut, as well as in numerous edited collections. Two of her most recent 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 a series of film screenings, exhibitions, and dialogues to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Pinochet’s military coup, which took place in 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. She is cofounder of the Latin American Women’s Audiovisual Research Network, RAMA.

 “From the Third World to the Global South: Channel 4 and the South series (1991–93)”. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (Forthcoming, March 2024) 

2023  “Bodies That Persist: The Seismic Legacy of Chilean Documentary Resistance.” Film Quarterly vol. 77, nº1 (48-55)

2023   “Women (Not) Making Movies under the Popular Unity in Chile (1970–73).” In Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film. Eds. Alix Beeston and Stefan Solomon, Berkeley: UC Press, 2023 (125-146).

2022   “Why didn’t you write to me? On Friendship, Exile, and Transnational Collaboration.” In Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image. Eds. Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg, Berlin: MIT/Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2022 (267-285).

2021  “The Double Day of Valeria Sarmiento: Exile, Mobility and Cinema’s Gendered Division of Labor.” Feminist Media Histories. Special Issue on Precarious Mobilities. Feminist Media Histories 7: 3 (154-177).

2019    (Un)veiling Bodies: A Trajectory of Chilean Post-Dictatorship Documentary.
Oxford, U.K: Legenda, 2019 

2019   “Message from Chile: Letters in Exile Cinema.” [in]Transition. Journal of
Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies vol. 6 nº1. Co-authored with José Miguel Palacios. http://mediacommons.org/intransition/message-chile

2016   Nomadías: El cine de Marilú Mallet, Valeria Sarmiento y Angelina Vázquez. Co-
edited with Catalina Donoso. Santiago: Metales Pesados, 2016.