Carl Fischer was an International Fellow at KWI until September 2025. He teaches courses on Latin American visual culture, gender studies, and literature in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. He is the author of Queering the Chilean Way: Cultures of Exceptionalism and Sexual Dissidence, 1965-2015 (translated into Spanish by Camila Matta as Locas excepciones: La vía chilena a la disidencia sexual) and co-editor of the volume Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World.