Vilma Navarro-Daniels has published a paper in Ciberletras. Journal of Literary Criticism and Culture

Vilma Navarro-Daniels, Professor of Spanish and Film Studies, has published her research paper, “Heterotopías disidentes: edad, género y sexualidad en La nave del olvido de Nicol Ruiz Benavides” (“Dissident Heterotopias: Age, Gender, and Sexuality in Nicol Ruiz Benavides’s film, Forgotten Roads”) in Ciberletras. Journal of Literary Criticism and Culture, housed by Lehman College and the City University of New York.

In her article, Vilma argues that in her first film –Forgotten Roads (Chile, 2020)—, Nicol Ruiz Benavides uses the variables of gender, age, and sexuality to deconstruct the hegemonic cultural practices and narratives that define the meaning of female aging as a process that produces representations either of fearful individuals who defend traditional values or –from a medicalized perspective— of decaying bodies and minds.