Martina Broner

|Assistant Professor
Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor

Martina Broner's research focuses on environmental cinema and media in 21st century Latin America. Her articles have appeared in or are forthcoming in JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Screen, Camera Obscura, and Hispanic Review. Her book project, Forest Formats: Media and Environment in the Amazon, engages with Indigenous thought and feminist frameworks to examine new cinematic formats that emerge from entanglements between human and other living entities, such as trees and rivers, in the transnational Amazon rainforest. Before joining the Department of Spanish and Portuguese as assistant professor, she was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Departments of Film & Media Studies and Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies. Broner co-founded the Amazonia Section of the Latin American Studies Association and was an invited assistant professor at Yale. She teaches courses such as "Picturing the End of Extraction in Latin America," "Cameras and Crisis," and "Framing Ecology and Gender." 

Contact

Martina.Broner@dartmouth.edu
Dartmouth Hall, Room 205
HB 6072

Department(s)

Spanish and Portuguese

Education

  • BA University of Minnesota
  • MFA Columbia University
  • MFA New York University
  • PhD Cornell University

Selected Publications

  • Peer Reviewed

    "Disorienting Cinema: Sensing Beyond Extractivism in the Peruvian Amazon," Screen, vol. 66, no. 3, Autumn 2025, 263-283.

    "Rethinking Format in the Amazon: Ecology and El abrazo de la serpiente," JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 61, no. 1, Fall 2021, 7–26. Winner of Latin American Studies Association Film Studies Section Best Article Award.

    Co-Editor with Hunter Vaughan and Martin Mhando, "Environmental Media at the Intersections: Green Storytelling, Practice, and Justice on the Screen and Behind the Scenes," Special Issue of Environmental Communication, vol. 19, no. 5, Summer 2025.

    Forthcoming

    "Tracking Cinematic Territory with Iracema," forthcoming, Camera Obscura.

    "Sebastião Salgado and the Riverine Production of Photography," forthcoming, Hispanic Review.

    Translations

    Antonio Muñoz Molina, "The Lighthouse at the End of the Hudson," Places Lost and Found: Essays from the Hudson Review, Syracuse University Press, January 2021. First published in The Hudson Review, vol. 66, no. 1, 2013

    Antonio Di Benedetto, Nest in the Bones: Stories, New York: Archipelago Books, 2017

    Antonio Di Benedetto, "The Guide Dog of Hermosilla," Harper's, May 2017

    Antonio Muñoz Molina, "Lives and Misfortunes of Lorenzo da Ponte," The Hudson Review, vol. 69, no. 2, 2016

    Fiction

    "Fire," Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, vol. 50, no. 1, 2017

    "Milú en la nieve," Estados Hispanos de América, Sudaquia Editores, New York, 2016. First published in 20/40: 20 autores latinoamericanos menores de 40 años, vol. 3, Suburbano Ediciones, 2014.

    Abundancia de cielo, New York: DíazGrey Editores, 2014

    El ruido de la fiesta, Buenos Aires: Editorial Mancha de Aceite, 2011