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César Albarrán-Torres

Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology

César Albarrán-Torres is a Mexican-Australian scholar and film critic. He is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, where he teaches Global Screen Studies. He has been widely published in academic and non-academic titles as a film and literary critic, author and translator. His current research focuses on film and television, as well as the negotiations between social media and politics in Mexico, particularly concerning the drug cartels. He is the author of Digital Gambling: Theorizing Gamble-Play Media (2018) and Global Trafficking Networks on Film and Television: Hollywood's Cartel Wars (2021). He is editor at the online journal Senses of Cinema.

Experience

  • 2016–present
    Lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology

Education

  • 2015 
    The University of Sydney, PhD
  • 2010 
    The University of Sydney, Master of Digital Communication and Culture
  • 2001 
    Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Bachelor of Arts in Communication Sciences