Spring 2024
Office hours: By appointment, both in person and remotely
Education
M.A. University of Michigan
Ph.D. University of Michigan
Areas of Expertise
Intersectional approaches to Latina/x media and popular culture
US Colombian studies
Critical disability studies
Language politics
Courses
LATS 114 / AMST 114 SEM
Of Caravans and Narcos: U.S. Media Narratives about Central and South America (not offered 2023/24)LATS 231 / AMST 231 / WGSS 232 SEM
Approaches to Media Studies: Analyzing Mediated Difference (not offered 2023/24)LATS 240 / COMP 210 / AMST 240 SEM
Latina/o/x Language Politics: Hybrid Voices (not offered 2023/24)LATS 338 / WGSS 338 / AMST 339 SEM
Latina/o/x Musical Cultures: Sounding Out Gender, Race, and Sexuality (not offered 2023/24)LATS 346 / AMST 346 SEM
Latinas/os and the Media: From Production to Consumption (not offered 2023/24)Scholarship/Creative Work
BOOKS, EDITED VOLUMES, AND SPECIAL ISSUES:
Failed Colombiana: Essays on Media, Migration, and Latina Madness (in progress)
Co-editor (with Johana Londoño, Ariana Ochoa Camacho, and Jennifer Harford Vargas), US Colombianidades from the Margins (in progress)
Co-editor (with Lina Rincón, Johana Londoño, and Jennifer Harford Vargas), Reimagining US Colombianidades: Transnational subjectivities, cultural expressions, and political contestations (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
Co-editor (withLina Rincón, Johana Londoño, and Jennifer Harford Vargas), “Reimagining US Colombianidades: Transnational subjectivities, cultural expressions, and political contestations”(special issue of Latino Studies, 8.3, September 2020)
Co-editor (with Dolores Inés Casillas), The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Media (New York: Routledge, 2017)
SELECT ARTICLES
“Lo peor que te puede pasar: Notes on Levanta Cola Jeans and Reading the Gendered Diasporic Colombianx Body” (in progress)
“Mentorship, Critical Authoethnography and the Practices of Self-Reflexivity: Investing in an Academy that Does Not Yet Exist” (Communication, Culture and Critique 14:221, 668-674, 2021)
“Thrice Unseen, Forever on Borrowed Time: Latina Feminist Reflections on Mental Disability and the Neoliberal Academy” (South Atlantic Quarterly 120:2, 301-320, 2021)
“Reimagining US Colombianidades: Transnational Subjectivities, Cultural Expressions, and Political Contestations” (with Lina Rincón, Johana Londoño, and Jennifer Harford Vargas (Latino Studies 8.3, 301-325, 2020)
“Latina Feminist Moments of Recognition: Contesting the Boundaries of Gendered Colombianidad in Bomba Estéreo’s “Soy yo'” (Latino Studies, 8.3, 326-342, 2020)
“Putting a “Good Face on the Nation”: Beauty, Memes and the Gendered Rebranding of Global Colombianidad” (WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, 46.1-2, 121-138 (Spring-Summer 2018))
SELECT BOOK AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES
SELECTED TRANSLATIONS
“The Transnational Restructuring of Communication and Consumption Practices: Latinos in the Urban Settings of Global Cities,” by Jéssica Retis, in The Routledge Handbook of Latina/o Media (New York: Routledge, 2017)
Current Committees
- Standing Grievance Panel
Megamenu Social