Patrick Blaine, assistant professor of Spanish, recently presented a paper and moderated a panel at the Cine-Lit conference in Portland, Ore.

Patrick Blaine, assistant professor of Spanish at Morningside College, recently presented a paper and moderated a panel at the Cine-Lit conference in Portland, Ore.

Blaine presented a paper titled “Gringos in Chilean Cinema: Nicolás López and Sebastián Silva.” He also moderated a panel on children and adolescents in Latin American film.

Cine-Lit is an international symposium dedicated to the academic analysis of Hispanic film and fiction. It is held in conjunction with the Portland International Film Festival.

Blaine has been on the faculty at Morningside College in 2010. He has a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Washington.