Marie-Eve Monette is an assistant professor of Spanish at The University of Alabama, where she teaches Latin American literature and cinema. Her research focuses on various types of media representing Latin American identities, more specifically film, documentary, and screendance. She is currently working on a screendance digital project, for which she travelled to Cuba with the Alabama group during the 2016 spring semester to interview members of the Danza Contemporánea de Cuba company, as well as the DVDanza Habana screendance festival.