Adrián Pérez Melgosa Visiting Assistant Professor Department of CLCS 2125 Humanities Building Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-5355 aperezmelgos@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

My main research interest is the study of cross-cultural relationship among US and Latin America after WWII. In particular, I am concerned with the role narrative fictions (films and novels) play in the workings of hemispheric hegemony. I have worked extensively in Argentinean film and novels, always from the point of view of their significance as aesthetic products that both represent and promote particular power structures within the communities where they are produced and consumed. This work has expanded into a comparative study of the way film and its industrial process has evolved in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina and their dialogical relationship with Hollywood. My education and academic background focused on comparative literature of North and Latin America, and my theoretical approach is grounded in Cultural Studies. My work on fictions of the Americas is based on close textual analysis in search of the mechanisms that give human content to abstract discourses of class, race, gender and nationality.