Felipe Quintanilla

Felipe QuintanillaAssistant Professor, Hispanic Studies

Ph.D. University of Western Ontario
Office: UC 3313
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.