Felipe Quintanilla

Felipe QuintanillaAssistant Professor, Hispanic Studies

Ph.D. University of Western Ontario
Office: UC 3313
Extension: 85865
Email: fquinta@uwo.ca

Biography

Felipe Quintanilla is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies at Western University, where his research and teaching cover a wide range of topics and genres, including the Salvadoran Post Civil memory and oral history; gender and sexuality in contemporary Latin American cinema and literature; U.S. Latin@ representation in popular media; and Spanish-English translation. His creative works have been included in several print anthologies as well as in various online publications. Born in Mexico City to a Mexican mother and a Salvadoran father, Dr. Quintanilla emigrated to Canada at the age of ten, and he received his Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Western University in 2012.

Book Publication

Indigenous Waterviews: An Anthology of Story, Song and Protocol For Water Ethics.

Edited by Juan G. Sánchez Martínez Sophie M. Lavoie and Felipe Q. Quintanilla Siwar Mayu, A River of Hummingbirds. June 2025 (In print and in ebook) Supported by the Indigenous Environmental Network-IEN, and a grant from the Ontario Arts Council-Northern Arts Projects Grant, and the Government of Ontario. Indigenous Waterviews compiles the work of around forty Indigenous writers, artists and elders, bringing together heterogeneous contemporary experiences, and celebrates diverse lands through their bodies of water and their multiple languages and cultures.

Book Presentation in San Salvador

May 14, 2025: Experiencias y memorias de Arcatao: Vol 1 (MUPI 2024)

Edited by Adriana Alas López, Marisol Zarceño, Felipe Quintanilla, and Comité de Memoria Histórica Sobreviviente de Arcatao This community book presents 204 stories about people who were killed or died because of the armed conflict in El Salvador (1970-1992), in the Arcatao district, Chalatenango, El Salvador. This book aims to honor the victims in Arcatao, expand our knowledge of the regional history of Arcatao, and call for non-repetition of political violence.