Antonio Traverso studied philosophy in Chile in the 1980s and completed a PhD on the philosophy of vision at Murdoch University, Australia, in 2003. He is Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies at Curtin University, Australia, and his publications include: (as editor) Southern Screens: Cinema, Culture and the Global South (2016) and (as co-editor) El Documental Político en Argentina, Chile y Uruguay (2015), Political Documentary Cinema in Latin America (2014), and Interrogating Trauma: Collective Suffering in Global Arts and Media (2011).
