Ernesto𱹱-ѳñdz

  • Professor
Address

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Education
Ph.D. University of Iowa
M.A. University of Iowa
B.A. University of Puerto Rico
Certificate in Filmmaking, NYU-CE


Publications
Dr. Ernesto R. 𱹱-ѳñdz is the author of the booksWest Side Story as Cinema: The Making and Impact of an American Masterpiece(University Press of Kansas, 2013),Pedro Almodóvar(British Film Institute 2007/2009), andBuñuel and Mexico: The Crisis of National Cinema(University of California Press, 2003/2025). His writings have appeared in many journals and collections includingQuarterly Review of Film & Video,Film & History, Lit, Letras peninsulares, Short Film Studies, Mise-au-Point, After Hitchcock, Authorship in Film Adaptation, Contemporary Spanish Cinema and Genre, A Companion to Luis Buñuel, Genre Gender Race and World Cinema, Hollywood at the Intersection of Race and Identity, The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick (2021) andThe Cambridge Companion to West Side Story (2025).From 2019 to 2022 he served as a member of the “Community Advisory Board” for Steven Spielberg’sWest Side Story.

Awards/Media
He is the winner of the Leslie and Woody Eaton Faculty Award for “Excellence in Research in the Humanities and the Arts,” the Marinus G. Smith “Excellence in Teaching Award” given by the CU Parents Association, and the Arts & Sciences “Award for Excellence in Teaching with Technology.” Prof. 𱹱-ѳñdz has received multiple teaching recognitions from the National Residence Hall Academic Program and was a co-winner of the Vice Chancellor’s Diversity and Equity Award. His many media appearances have been featured nationally and internationally on NPR, NBC Latino, BBC Radio, the New York Times International, the Los Angeles Times, and locally on Denver’s KUSA TV (NBC), and KMGH TV (ABC), Colorado Public Radio’s “Colorado Matters” and other outlets.

Teaching/Leadership
At CU he teaches courses on film theory, history, and aesthetics, Hollywood genres (“The Hollywood Musical,” “American Horror Film,” "The Western & its Contexts,” “Lives of 007”), and the Education Abroad Global Seminars “Cinema & the City: Paris”, and “Cinema & the City: Rome.” He also teaches courses on directors Stanley Kubrick (“The Director’s Craft”), and Alfred Hitchcock (“The American Films, 1940-1964”). Under his leadership as faculty director and chair, the “Film Studies Program” was promoted to Department status, re-named “Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts,” and received national recognition with mentions in “Best Programs” lists inMovie MakerMagazine,No Film School,FilmmakerMagazine, The Hollywood Reporter,and other publications.

International

Dr. 𱹱-ѳñdz has spoken at conferences, symposia, film festivals and retrospectives in the U.S., the U.K., Italy, Spain, Mexico, Canada, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico, his native country. He has taught at NYU in Madrid (Spain), at the Cine Club Universitario of the State University of Zulia (Maracaibo, Venezuela), and with the “Semester at Sea” Program through nineteen countries and five continents around the world including Brazil, Morocco, Ghana, South Africa, Greece, Turkey, Malta, India, Vietnam, China, and Japan.