Author Silvia Spitta and Gerd Gemunden

Silvia Spitta and Gerd Gemunden

Silvia Spitta is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College and Robert E. Maxwell 1923 Professor of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of Between Two Waters: Narratives of Transculturation in Latin America and the award winning Misplaced Objects: Collections and Recollections in Europe and America. Gerd Gemünden, author and editor of 11 books, is the Sherman Fairchild Professor in the Humanities at Dartmouth College. His most current projects are a short monograph on Kleber Mendonça Filhos’ Neighboring Sounds and a longer study on realism and the supernatural in contemporary Latin American cinema.

‘Esa inmensa cantidad de grises:’ An Interview with Juan Pablo Sallato

Silvia Spitta and Gerd Gemunden

May 2026

Interviews

Between doing the right thing and the wrong thing there is “an immensity of grey tones” – this is how Chilean director Juan Pablo Sallato describes the moral dilemma faced by the protagonist of his feature debu...