Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Respondent for Latinx Visualscapes Panel
Isabel Molina-Guzmán is a professor in Latina/Latino Studies, Media & Cinema Studies and a faculty affiliate of Gender & Women’s Studies and Latin American & Caribbean Studies at the University of...
Camilla Fojas’s research explores transnational Asian, Pacific, and Latin/o American cultural and media studies in a comparative imperial context. Her books include Cosmopolitanism in the Americas...
Truth, Justice, and the (Ancient) Egyptian Way: DC's Doctor Fate and the Arab Spring
Ph.D. student in the American Studies Program at the College of William & Mary. Her research interests include Arab and Muslim representation in American popular media, the superhero genre, and (new)...
Not About Race, Per Se: The Indie Asian American Indie Rock Film
Assistant Professor Ishii teaches classes on 20th- and 21st-century U.S. multiethnic literature, transnational Asian/American literature, and queer of color critique. His scholarship has been...
To Adapt or Not to Adapt: Negotiating Commodification and Racialization from Comic Books to Live Action
Kathryn M. Frank completed her Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Michigan and her B.A. in Chicana and Chicano Studies at Stanford University. Dr. Frank specializes in media industries...
PhD candidate, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Presenter on Religion, Race, & Culture Panel
American Muslim Humor: Colonial Masculinities and the Case of Aziz Ansari
I am a doctoral candidate in Islamic Studies. My dissertation research looks at the cultural productions of humor by South Asian Muslim men and the ways in which Islam is constructed and then...
Roopali Mukherjee is Associate Professor of Media Studies. She is also a faculty member in the Film Studies, Asian American Studies, and Africana Studies programs, and serves as Associate Director...
Resistance and Self Care: Black Women's Community Care Online
Biography: Raven Maragh-Lloyd's primary area of research investigates digital media culture with an emphasis on critical race and gender studies. She explores the ways that particular racialized and...
Rootedness on the Slippery Earth: The Religious Aesthetics of Migration and Democracy
Nichole Flores is an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia. She speaks, writes and teaches about the significance of Catholic and Latinx theology and ethics in...
