Rate My Professor Antonio Traverso

Antonio Traverso serves as Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry within the Faculty of Humanities at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. Born in Chile, he studied philosophy in that country during the 1980s and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from Murdoch University in 2003, with a dissertation centered on the philosophy of vision. Previously holding the position of Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, Traverso lectures in film theory, film history, and production. His research specializations encompass documentary cinema, third cinema, experimental and avant-garde cinema, film and philosophy, and visuality studies. He is also a practicing film and video artist.

Traverso's scholarship focuses on political documentary cinema in Latin America, post-dictatorship memory and trauma in Chilean documentary, and screen genres of reconciliation across contexts including Chile, Rwanda, Australia, and New Zealand. Prominent publications include his authored book Political Documentary Cinema in Latin America (Routledge, 2014) and Documentary Cinema in Chile (I.B. Tauris). He co-edited Trauma, Media, Art: New Perspectives (Routledge, 2011) with Mick Broderick, Southern Screens: Cinema, Culture and the Global South (Routledge, 2023) with Deane Williams and Keyan Tomaselli, and El Documental Político en Argentina, Chile y Uruguay: de los años cincuenta a la década del dos mil (2015). Key articles and visual essays feature 'Panorama del cine documental a 50 años del golpe de Estado de 1973: dictadura, trauma y memoria colectiva en Chile' (2024), 'Letters from the islands: A visual essay' (2022), ''Forgiveness is something that can be seen from behind'. Visualizing a conversation with a perpetrator and a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide in a reconciliation village' (2020), 'Excavating La Moneda: cinematic memory and post-dictatorship documentary in Chile' (2018), 'Paine memorial: a visual essay' (2013), 'Villa Grimaldi: a visual essay' (2009), and 'Tales from the South: a visual essay' (2009). His works have accumulated 133 citations and 4,432 reads on ResearchGate, impacting critical studies of cinematic trauma and collective memory in the Global South. Traverso has supervised PhD theses and delivered seminars on experimental and political cinema.