Palacios, José Miguel
Assistant Professor
Office: HN 512
Email: jose.palaciosdelvalle@hunter.cuny.edu
Website: www.josemiguelpalacios.com
José Miguel Palacios is a film historian with teaching and research interests in transnational cinemas, cinemas of exile and migration, documentary, radical film cultures, and archives and cultural heritage. 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, his 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. This approach can be seen in his first book, Transnational Cinema Solidarity: Chilean Exile Film & Video after 1973 (University of California Press, 2025). You can listen to a podcast and read more about it here. Expanding on archival questions tied to histories of forced displacement, Palacios is currently at work on a second book devoted to the archives of exile filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. This project has been supported by a Project Development Grant from the American Council of Learned Societies (2025-26) and by a Fellowship from the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. In a commitment to reaching other audiences beyond those tied to academic scholarship, Palacios has written short-form criticism for various outlets, led exchange projects between international film archives, and acted as a sporadic programmer of film and cultural events. His short-form criticism has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Artishock, laFuga, and in Claudia Joskowicz: Stillness in Motion (Madrid: Editorial Turner, 2024).
Prior to joining Film & Media at Hunter College, CUNY, Palacios was an Assistant Professor at California State University, Long Beach (2021-26). Before moving to California, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Art Department at Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago, Chile (2018-20), and taught a wide range of film and media courses at New York University, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and Universidad de Chile. He received a Ph.D. from New York University’s Department of Cinema Studies (2017) and an MA from Columbia University’s Film Studies program (2011).