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Irmgard Emmelhainz is a professor, writer, researcher, and translator based in Anahuac Valley (Mexico City). She holds a PhD from the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto and an MA in Art History, Theory and Criticism from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work about film, the Palestine Question, art, culture and neoliberalism has been translated to many languages and she has presented it at an array of international venues, including Harvard, the March Meeting at Sharjah, the Walter Benjamin in Palestine Conference (2015), The New School and Americas Society (2016), SBC Gallery, Montreal (2016), The University of California in San Diego, ArtBo, Bogotá, School of Visual Arts, New York, KHIO at Oslo, University of Texas El Paso (2020), Stanford University (2021), MoMA (2022), and more. Her books include Toxic Loves, Impossible Futures: Feminist Lives as Resistance (Vanderbilt University Press, Critical Mexican Studies Series, 2021 and in Spanish by Taurus); The Tyranny of Common Sense: Mexico’s Postneoliberal Conversion (SUNY Press, 2020); Jean-Luc Godard’s Political Filmmaking (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019); and The Sky is Incomplete: Travel Chronicles in Palestine (Taurus Mexico, 2017), forthcoming from Vanderbilt University Press in 2023.