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Scarlett Hester

Assistant Professor, Middle Tennessee State University

Presenter on Resistance & Restoration Panel

“I’m not fuxxing with white people”: LeBron James, The Shop, and Black Counter Publics

My research interests include critical media studies, critical rhetoric, whiteness, race & gender, and intersectionality. I am especially interested in pursing intersectional feminist scholarship in...

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Tony Tran

Assistant Professor, Boston College

Presenter on Asian/American Panel

Good/Bad/Excellend Asian: Racial Identities across Generations in The Kids Table and Subtle Asian Traits

Tony Tran is an Assistant Professor in the Communication Department at Boston College.  His teaching and research interests include global and transnational communication, Vietnamese diasporic...

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Kwame Otu

Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

Presenter on Religion, Race, & Culture Panel

On (Im)Possible Futures: Voodoo Lyrics and Queer Temporalities in Ghanaian Music Videos

Kwame Otu’s research transects issues of sexual citizenship, gender, human rights NGOs, and neoliberal racial formations in postcolonial Africa, traversing the anthropology of Africa, race, gender...

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Mary Beltrán

Associate Professor & Associate Chair, University of Texas - Austin

Presenter on Latinx Visualscapes Panel

False Starts for Latinxs in Television: Failed Series of the 1980s & 1990s

Mary Beltrán specializes in critical studies-driven scholarship at the intersections of film and television studies, Latina/Latino and critical race studies, and gender studies. Informed by her...

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Manuel Avilés-Santiago

Assistant Professor, Arizona State University

Presenter on Latinx Visualscapes Panel

Netflix Latinx

Manuel G. Aviles-Santiago is an associate professor of communication and culture at the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, and an affiliate faculty with the School of Transborder Studies. He...

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Isra Ali

Clinical Assistant Professor, New York University

Presenter on Religion, Race, & Culture Panel

Muslims Meme-ing: Culture and citizenship in the Era of Progressive Militarism

Prof. Ali is a feminist media scholar, whose current research interests center on war on terror era militarism. She is particularly concerned with the ways that feminism is mobilized in the public...

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