Jose Miguel Palacios
José Miguel Palacios, Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinematic Arts at CSU Long Beach, is a film historian with teaching and research interests in transnational cinemas, Latin American film and media, cinemas of exile and migration, documentary, radical film cultures, and archives and cultural heritage.
Palacios is the author of Transnational Cinema Solidarity: Chilean Exile Film & Video after 1973 (University of California Press, 2025). His academic work has also been published in journals such as Film Quarterly, The Moving Image, Screen, Jump Cut, In Transition, and Archivos de la Filmoteca, as well as in numerous edited collections published in the United States, Chile, and Argentina. His short-form criticism has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Artishock, laFuga, and in Claudia Joskowicz: Stillness in Motion (Madrid: Editorial Turner, 2024). As a programmer, Palacios co-organized the six-part film series Archives for the Future, which screened in Fall 2023 in different venues throughout New York City to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Chilean military coup.
Prior to joining CSU Long Beach, Palacios was a postdoctoral fellow in the Art Department at Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago, Chile, and taught a wide range of film and media courses at New York University, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad de Chile, and Universidad Uniacc.
Ph.D. Department of Cinema Studies, New York University, 2017
M.A. Film Studies Program, Columbia University, 2011
B.A. Film & TV, Universidad Uniacc (Santiago, Chile), 2006
José Miguel Palacios has received grants and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS Project Development Grant 2025-26), the College of the Arts at CSULB (Faculty Small Grant 2023-24 and Re-assigned time for 2024-25 and 2025-26), Chile’s National Research Council CONICYT (Fondecyt Postdoctoral Project nº3180209, 2018-2020), and Humanities New York (Public Humanities Fellowship 2014-15).
Palacios’ research combines historical and archival approaches to the study of cinema with a strong theoretical inquiry into questions of solidarity, transnationalism, globalization, and mobility, particularly in Latin American film and media. As a scholar and teacher, Palacios is committed to the project of not only expanding but redrawing the geopolitical boundaries that define what we call “world” or “global” cinema. He is also committed to creating new cinema histories that respond to the call to decolonize film studies and to students’ need to see themselves represented—on screen and in the classroom.
Transnational Cinema Solidarity: Chilean Exile Film & Video after 1973 (University of California Press, 2025) is his first book. Read more about it here.
Palacios’ second book project, for which he received an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Project Development Grant 2025-26, is tentatively titled The Cinema to Come: The Archives, Writings, and Films of Raúl Ruiz. Read more about it here.
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Journals and Book chapters:
“Beyond Memory: An Introduction,” Film Quarterly vol. 77, n°1 (Fall 2023), 38-47.
“Hay muertos que no hacen ruido / Some Dead Don’t Make a Sound,” Claudia Joskowicz: Quietud en movimiento / Stillness in Motion (Madrid: Editorial Turner, 2024), 94-99
