Sonia Kerfa is a Professor at the University of Grenoble-Alpes, with a degree (agrégation) in Spanish. Member of the ILCEA4 laboratory (EA 7356), associate member of Passages XX-XXI (EA 4360). Her research interests are in the visual arts in the Hispanic world, in particular the history and aesthetics of real-life cinemas (documentary, activist, experimental, filmed news, web-documentary) and issues of gender (women, homosexualities) and marginality. Currently, she is a member of the project of excellence “Produsage juvenil en las redes sociales: construcción de la identidad sexual y gestión de las desigualdades de género” (Yolanda Tortajada, Spain, 2018-2021) and co-organizes the project GAPP (Gender and Arts from a Politics and Poet(h)ique perspective). Her latest publications are Image et Sport, Lyon, Les cahiers du Grimh/PUSE, 2018, 390 p. (edited with Magali Kabous), “Las Revoluciones en el visor: intervención, persistencia y usos”, Revista FotoCinema, No. 17, July 2018 (coordinated with Pascale Thibaudeau). She was Secretary General of GRIMH (Groupe de Réflexion sur l’Image dans le Monde Hispanique) from 2012 to 2018.

Publications

Kerfa, Sonia; Marchiori, Dario; Mateus Mora, Angélica,  Le geste documentaire des réalisatrices. Amérique latine-Espagne, Orbis Tertius, 2023.

Kerfa Sonia; Castro, Idoli, “‘I’m Not Your (Dead) Latina’. Ana Mendieta. Reminiscencias políticas y estéticas”, Monograma. Revista Iberoamericana de Cultura y Pensamiento, 2022.

Kerfa, Sonia; Cervera Ferrer, Lorena; Ramírez-Soto, Elizabeth, “Latin American feminist film and visual art collectives”, Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, no. 61, 2022.

Kerfa, Sonia and Kabous, Magali (eds.), Image et Sport, Lyon, Les cahiers du Grimh/PUSE, 2018, 390 p.

Kerfa, Sonia and Thibaudeau, Pascale (coord.), “Las Revoluciones en el visor: intervención, persistencia y usos”, Revista FotoCinema, No. 17, July 2018.