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...
Shilpa Davé is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies and American Studies at the University of Virginia and an Assistant Dean in the College of Arts and Science working with Bonnycastle, Hancock...
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...
Embodied Exchanges: B Circuits of Cinema Across South/West Asia, 1950s-1970s
After completing my PhD at Rice University (2014), I joined the American University of Beirut as an Assistant Professor of Visual Culture. My location in Lebanon for two years (2014 - 2016)...
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...
Associate Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. Director of American Studies. Founding director of the Asian Pacific American Studies minor.
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 Beltránspecializes 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...
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...
LeiLani Nishime is an Associate Professor of Communication. Her research areas are multiracial and interracial studies, the intersection of race and gender, Asian American media representations...
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...