Myra Washington

Associate Professor, University of New Mexico

Respondent for Comic Culture Panel

My research is situated in the areas of cultural studies, critical media and digital media studies, comparative ethnic studies (with a focus on African-American and Asian American studies), critical rhetorical studies, gender and sexuality studies, and the emerging field of critical mixed-race studies.  The critical focus in my research means that I am always examining the ways power enhances or elides the way we understand meta-narratives of identity like race, gender, class, sexuality, nation, etc.  I focus on mediated representations because I am interested in contextualizing the moments that shape representations as they appear and how in turn those representations shape our understandings of each other.