Angharad Valdivia

Professor, University of Illinois

Presenter on Latinx Visualscapes Panel

Roma: The Intersectional Feminist Review

Dr. Valdivia is Research Professor of the Institute of Communications Research and Department of Media and Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois, Inaugural Head of Media and Cinema Studies, and past Director of the Institute of Communications Research, 2009-2014. She publishes on transnationalism, gender and popular culture. Books include A Latina in the Land of Hollywood; Feminism, Multiculturalism and the Media; A Companion to Media Studies; Latina/o Communication Studies Today; Mapping Latina/o Studies; and Latina/os and the Media. She edited Communication Theory and the International Encyclopedia of Media Studies (2012/2013), a 7-volume full-length article encyclopedia with Wiley/Blackwell.

Dr. Valdivia was the keynote presenter at the Race & Media Conference 2015.