Ryan Rashotte

Ryan Rashotte's first book, Narco Cinema: Sex, Drugs, and Banda Music in Mexico’s B-Filmography, has been acclaimed by peer reviewers as “engaging, inviting, funny, and smart,” and earned him the distinction “a critic ahead of his time.”

An Assistant Professor of English, and the Coordinator of the Writing Program at Lakeland University Japan, Rashotte takes a lively transnational approach to his research, which often focuses on narco culture, Latinx film, and exploitation cinema.