Stephen M. Hart’s interest in documentary film-making extends to his directorship of the documentary film-making “taller” alongside Enrique Colina at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television in Cuba (2006-2016), his co-directorship of the Costa Rica Documentary Summer School (2025) (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanities/european-languages-culture/research/research-centres/spanish-portuguese-latin-american-studies/documentary-summer-school-costa-rica) and his directorshi

Stephen M. Hart’s research on contemporary film includes A Companion to Latin American Film (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2004); Latin American Cinema (London: Reaktion Books, 2015); and editor with Maria Delgado and Randal Johnson, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Latin American Cinema (New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017). Hart is particularly interested in the interface between practice-based and theoretical knowledge in Film Studies.

Stephen M. Hart’s research on Latin America and China includes The ‘Hidden’ Story of Latin America and China (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2025). Hart has a particular interest in the hypothesis that the Chinese may have reached China before Christopher Columbus.

Stephen M. Hart’s research on resilience includes Resilience and the Humanities: Critique and Testing, edited by Stephen M. Hart, Camila Mizala and Nicolas Lema Habash (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2026).

Stephen M. Hart’s research on magical realism includes ‘Magical Realism in the Americas: Politicised Ghosts in One Hundred Years of Solitude, The House of the Spirits, and Beloved’, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 9.2 (2003), 115-23; editor with Wen-chin Ouyang, A Companion to Magical Realism (London: Tamesis, 2005); Gabriel García Márquez (London: Reaktion Books, 2010); ‘Magical Realism’s Synecdoche’, in Essays in Honor of Lois Parkinson Zamora: From the Ameri

Stephen M. Hart’s research on Santa Rosa de Lima includes Edición crítica del Proceso Apostólico de Santa Rosa de Lima (1587-1617), Congr. Riti Processus 1573, Archivum Secretum Vaticanum (Lima: Cátedra Vallejo, 2017); Edición crítica del Segundo Proceso Apostólico de Santa Rosa de Lima, “Rosa a Sancta Maria III Ord. S. Dominici: Supplementa Proc.” (1670). Congr. Riti Processus 2208, Archivum Secretum Vaticanum (Lima: Cátedra Vallejo, 2019); Rosa de Lima: la evolución de una

Stephen M. Hart is the Founder and Director of the Institute of César Vallejo Studies at University College London, dedicated to the study of Vallejo’s life and work. In 2022 it collaborated with the University of Oxford in order to hold the 5th “Vallejo Siempre” Congress in which more than thirty papers on Vallejo’s work were delivered (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2022/oct/vallejo-siempre-5th-international-congress-ucl-university-oxford)

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