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Benjamin Mier-Cruz

Benjamin Mier-Cruz

Benjamin Mier-Cruz is an assistant professor of Scandinavian Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Their research examines Nordic writers and filmmakers of color and intersectional representations of gender, sexuality, and race. Their research also explores transgender cinema and the figure of the vampire in literature and film. Their current book project studies constructions of subjecthood and self-representation by filmmakers of color in Swedish documentary cinema and visual culture.