Communications

Assistant Professor, Graduate Coordinator

College of Arts & Humanities - Languages & Cultures

Bio

Dr. Iliana Pagán-Teitelbaum is an Associate Professor of Languages and Cultures at West Chester University. She obtained a B.A. in Latin American Studies at the University of Puerto Rico and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University. She was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Caribbean Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the Graduate Coordinator for the MA in Languages and Cultures, and she teaches courses on Latin American film and Spanish language.

Her research focuses on cultural representations of inequality and violence in the Americas, as well as the critical discourse analysis of media representations of indigenous peoples from the Andes. She is co-chair of the Innovation in Diversity & Inclusion Grants Council at WCU and also co-chairs the Greater Philadelphia Latin American Studies Consortium-GPLASC. As a filmmaker, she directed Twin Tongues: Learning English in América, a nonfiction film about the politics of bilingualism and identity in the Hispanic community of Philadelphia (in post-production).

Education

• B.A., University of Puerto Rico
• M.A., Harvard University
• Ph.D., Harvard University
• Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
• Film Scholar, Scribe Video Center