Texas Tech University

Scott L. Baugh

Professor
Film & Media Studies

Email: scott.baugh@ttu.edu

Scott L. Baugh specializes in film/media studies with emphases in multicultural American aesthetics, Latin/x cinemas, and Latin American cultural studies. He is the author of Y Tu Mamá También: Mythologies of Youth (Routledge, 2019/2020) and Latino American Cinema (Greenwood, 2012), the co-editor with Victor A. Sorell of Born of Resistance: Cara a Cara Encounters with Chicana/o Visual Culture (U of Arizona P, 2016), and the editor of Mediating Chicana/o Culture: Multicultural American Vernacular (Cambridge Scholars P, second edition, 2008). His current research projects include a book on post-structuralism in contemporary cinema. 

Ph.D. Oklahoma State University 

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Books

Y Tu Mamá También: Mythologies of Youth. New York: Routledge, ebook 2019, cloth 2020. 

Born of Resistance: Cara a Cara Encounters with Chicana/o Visual Culture. Tuscon: U of Arizona P, 2016. (co-edited with Victor A. Sorell) 

Latino American Cinema: An Encyclopedia of Movies, Stars, Concepts, and Trends. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood/ABC-Clio, 2012. 

Mediating Chicana/o Culture: Multicultural American Vernacular. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars P. 1/e, 2006; 2/e, 2008. 

Special Issues

South Central Review, 41.2 (2024). On critical engagements on Quentin Tarantino’s artwork, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the release of Pulp Fiction. 

Journal of Film & Video, 57.1-2 (2005). Double issues on Experimental and Multicultural film, video, and digital media arts. With Willie Varela. 106 pp 

Film & History, 34.2 (2004). Latin American Film History, part 2. With Mike Schoenecke. 112 pp 

Film & History, 34.1 (2004). Latin American Film History, part 1. With Mike Schoenecke. 112 pp 

Articles

“Multiple Personalities of Pulp Fiction’s Musical Soundtrack: Liner Notes to a 30th Anniversary,” in SCRev 41.2 (2024): 73-94. 

“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood… Pulp Fiction Turns 30,” SCRev41.2 (2024): 1-15. 

Pulp Fiction,” in Screening American Independent Cinema, eds. Justin Wyatt and W.D. Phillips. London: Routledge (2023), 313-322.  

"'New' New Latin American Cinema Manifestoes," in Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics, eds. Yannis Tzioumakis and Claire Malloy. London: Routledge (2016), 79-90. 

"Sense and Sensibilities: Discontinuing Conventions in/for Willie Varela's Burning Worlds," in Born of Resistance. Tuscon: U of Arizona P (2016): 245-253. 

"A Conversation with Willie Varela," in Born of Resistance. Tuscon: U of Arizona P (2016), 232-238. 

"Resisting Definitions of Chicana/o Visual Culture" (Introduction) in Born of Resistance. Tuscon: U of Arizona P (2016), 3-36. With Victor A. Sorell. 

"Hechoen Mexico, @cross 'Digital Divides': Border Graffiti and Narrative Codes in Fran Ilich's Cuidad/City," Mediating Chicana/o Culture, 2/e (2008), 140-164. 

"Aquí y Ahora on Teaching Chicana/o Cultural Studies" (Afterword to 2/e), Mediating Chicana/o Culture, 2/e (2008), 201-222. 

"Film: With Stars in Their Eyes" in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture. Series ed. Gary Hoppenstand. Westport, CT: Greenwood. (2007), 107-135. 

"Meaningful 'Juxtapositions': A Conversation with Willie Varela." Quarterly Review of Film & Video, 23.5 (2006), 389-408. 

"Conversing Brokeback Mountain's Varied Spaces and Contesed Desires." Intertexts, 10.2, (2006), 155-179. With Sara Spurgeon, Donovan Gwinner, and O. Alan Weltzien. 

"Cinematic Dis-Contents: Addressing a Latina/Latino Avant-Garde through the Browser Apparatus." Journal of Film & Video, 57.1-2, (2005): 55-77. 

"The Evolution of Writing: An Interview with Mark Spragg." Iron Horse Literary Review, 6.1 (2004): 13-31. 

"Developing History/Historicizing Development in Mexican Nuevo Cine Manifestoes around la Crisis." Film & History, 34.2 (2004): 25-37. 

"Latin American History and Critical Media Studies: Curricular Explorations." Film & History, 34.2 (2004): 65-85. 

"Manifesting la Historia: Systems of 'Development' and the New Latin American Cinema Manifesto." Film & History, 34.1 (2004): 56-65. 

"Mexican/Americans." American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past. Ed. Peter Rollins. New York: Columbia UP, 2003. 269-76. 

"Changing of the Guard: Pinche Pintas and 'Family'/Familia in Contemporary Chicano Film." Journal of Film and Video, 55.2-3 (Summer/Fall 2003). 3-21. 

Awards

Scholarship of Teaching Initiatives, TTU Libraries, Open Education Resources (OER) Incentive Grant, with Wyatt Phillips, 2023. 

NHC-National Humanities Center (Durham, NC), Summer Resident Fellowship, 2018. 

Lawrence Schovanec Teaching Academy Fellowship, TTU, 2016. 

SCMLA-South Central Modern Language Association, Faculty Research Award, 2015-2016. 

TTU Libraries Lyerla Travel Grant, for archival research in 2016, Stanford University Library's Special Collection. 

PCA/ACA-Popular Culture/American Culture Associations' Marshall Fishwick Research Grant, 2008. 

American Historical Association - Film & History League's Scholarly Editing Award (for Film & History [34.1 (2004)] speical issue on Latin American film history) with Mike Schoenecke. 2004. 

Support of Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity in the Arts and Humanities," Vice President for Research, TTU, "Project Grant Proposal: Mitoteando con Media: Revolutions in Chicana/Chicano Video Art" - for archival research in 2006, Video Data Bank, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 

"Visiting Scholar Fellowship," Centro de Estudios Americanos/Center for American Studies, Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila/Autonomous University of Coahuila, Saltillo, Coahuila, MX - for workshop at the Center of American Studies and archival research at the School of Arts, Autonomous University of Coahuila in 2005.