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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS:
University of Michigan, Associate Professor. Departments of American Culture and Screen Arts and Cultures
Indiana University, Bloomington Associate Professor, Dept. of Communication & Culture, 2006-2009
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Communication & Culture, 2001-06
Adjunct Professor: American Studies, Cultural Studies, Latino Studies, Latin American & Spanish Caribbean Studies, 2001-09
University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX Assistant Professor, Communication Arts Department, 2000-01
University of Texas, Austin, Teaching Assistant, Department of Radio-TV-Film, 1996-1999
Hostos Community College (CUNY), Bronx, NY
Adjunct Lecturer, Humanities Department, 1994-1996
Metropolitan University, Río Piedras, PR
Adjunct Lecturer, Humanities Department, 1993
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. (2000). University of Texas at Austin Department of Radio, TV, & Film
M.A. (1993). State University of New York at Stony Brook Theatre Department
B.A. (1991). University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Drama Department, with a minor in Communications
AREAS OF INTEREST:
Television Studies; Race and Media; Global Media; Latino/a, Spanish Caribbean, Latin American, and African Diaspora Studies
PUBLICATIONS:
Book: Tuning Out Blackness: Race and Nation in the History of Puerto
Rican Television. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005.
Refereed Journal: “Havana as a 1940s-1950s Latin American Media Capital.”
Articles Accepted for publication, Critical Studies in Media Communication, August 2009, 26 (3): 275-293.
“Diasporic and Marginal Crossroads: The Films of Frances Negrón-Muntaner.” Accepted for publication, Latino Studies Journal, September 2009 7 (3), forthcoming.
“Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Television, 1950-1953.” Cinema Journal, spring 2007, 42 (3): 3-25.
“Channeling Blackness/Challenging Racism: A Theatrical Response.” Global Media and Communication, December 2006, 2 (3): 335-354.
“Caribbean Negritos: Blackface and Black Voice in Puerto Rico.” Television and New Media, November 2004, 5 (4): 315-337.
“The Performance and Reception of Televisual ‘Ugliness’ in Yo soy Betty la fea.” Feminist Media Studies, March 2003, 3 (1): 65-81.
Reprint: Charlotte Brunsdon and Lynn Spigel (eds.) Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader. Open University Press, 2007, 302-319.
“Erasing Blackness: The Media Construction of ‘Race’ in Mi Familia, The First Puerto Rican Situation Comedy with a Black Family.” Media, Culture & Society, July 2002, 24 (4): 481-491.
Reprint: Horace Newcomb (ed.) Television: The Critical View. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 207-222.
“Beyond U.S. Dominance: Cuban and Local Influences on the Origins of Puerto Rican Commercial Television.” Centro Journal, spring 2001, XIII (1): 60-77.
Invited Publications “Our Betty: The Legacy of the Yo soy Betty la fea Success in
Colombia.” In Janet McCabe and Kim Akass (eds.), Reading Ugly Betty, Under contract with I.B. Tauris.
“Interpreting Cubanness, Americanness, and the Sitcom: WPBT-PBS’s ¿Qué pasa U.S.A.? (1975-1980).” In Tasha Oren and Sharon Shahaf (eds.), Global Formats and New Television Studies. Under contract with Routledge.
“Mediating ‘Neutrality,’ Travels and Displacements: La guagua
aérea (1993) and Nueba Yol (1996).” In Patrice Petro, Lane Hall and A. Aneesh (eds.), World Making: Art, Media, and the Politics of the Global. Under consideration, Rutgers University Press.
Unrefereed Publications “Carla’s, Callie’s, and the Suárez’s Long Lost Ancestors: ESAA-TV and ¿Qué pasa U.S.A.?” May 2009, 9 (13).
“Are You Smarter Than a Cuban Customs Official?: Reassessing
Cuba’s Commercial Television Influence in Latin America.” Flow, March 2009, 9 (8).
“A Señora Drinks Café with a Fea in Bogota, the New Hip TV
Production Place in Latin America.” Flow, December 2008, 9 (4).
“Beautiful Betty.” Ms. Magazine, winter 2007.
Entries on Aída Barrera and ¿Qué pasa U.S.A.? Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the US. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
WORK-IN-PROGRESS:
Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial TV, 1950-1960, book manuscript.
AWARDS, GRANTS, & FELLOWSHIPS:
2009, Visiting resident scholar, Annenberg School for Communication,
University of Pennsylvania.
2008, Trustee’s Teaching Award, Department of Communication and
Culture, Indiana University-Bloomington.
2008, Center for Latin American and Spanish Caribbean Studies
(CLACS) research grant.
2007, Selected to participate in the “Anatomy of an Idea” Faculty
Seminar sponsored by the International Radio & Television Society Foundation and ABC. The seminar addressed issues of diversity on television.
2007, Nominated by the Communication and Culture graduate students
for the spring 2007 Faculty Mentor Award. Indiana University-Bloomington.
2005-2006, Selected to participate in the one-year Variations of Blackness
Seminar sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences. Indiana University-Bloomington.
2003-2004, Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Tenure institution,
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.
2003, Grant-in-Aid, College of Arts and Sciences. Indiana University-
Bloomington.
2001, Top Competitive Paper in International Communication.
International Communication Association Conference,
Washington, D.C.
1999-2000, Continuing Fellowship. University of Texas at Austin.
1999, Professional Development Award.
1998, Professional Development Award.
1997, Shell Grant Recipient.
1991-1993, Turner Fellowship. SUNY at Stony Brook.
1987-1988, University of Puerto Rico Presidential Scholarship. CUNY-UPR Exchange Program, Hunter College.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS:
October, 2009, Title: TBA. New Agendas in Global Communication and Media.
Department of Radio, TV, and Film. University of Texas, Austin.
April, 2009 “No Neutral Ground: The Displaced and Disparate Latin Voices of Nueba Yol (1996).” Latin American Media: Distortions and Resistance, A Symposium of the Center for Latin American and Latino/a Studies. Georgia State University, Atlanta.
March, 2009, “Havana as a 1940s-1950s Latin American Media Capital.” Spring
Colloquium Lecture Series. Council for Latin American & Iberian Studies. Yale University.
November, 2008, “When all TV was Local: Reinterpreting the Spanish Caribbean
Television Past and Present” “New Directions in Caribbean Studies” symposium. Center for Race and Ethnicity, Rutgers University.
November, 2008, “From Exiles to Sitcom Immigrants: Cuban Americans and
Cultural Assimilation on TV’s ¿Que Pasa USA? (1975-1980)” and “Making Betty Ugly for America: How the Ugliest TV Character Became a Latina.” Colloquium speaker, Center for Latin American and Spanish Caribbean Studies and the Department Spanish and Portuguese, Michigan State University.
October 2007, “Found in Translation: Why is Ugly Betty Latina?” DePauw
University, Greencastle, Indiana.
May 2007, “The Cuban Connections: Havana as a 1940s-1950s Latin
American Media Capital.” Film & Digital Media Department Spring Colloquia, University of California-Santa Cruz.
March 2007, “Cubanidad in Preproduction: The Imaginings and
Beginnings of Cuban Commercial Television.” Reflections on Empire: Latin American Depiction of Colonization in Literature, History, and Cinema, A Symposium of the Center for Latin American and Latino/a Studies. Georgia State University, Atlanta.
March 2006, Plenary session speaker, panel on Television Studies.
“Location and Flow: Crossing Borders, Changing Channels,
Charting Difference.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia.
March 2006, “Televisual Mestizaje: Representing Race and Nation in Puerto
Rico’s Commercial Television.” Race and Media in Comparative Perspective: Europe, Canada, and the Spanish Caribbean. Global Media Research Center, College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.
April 2005, “Mediating Travels and Displacements: La guagua aérea (1993)
and Nueba Yol (1996).” Cinematic Dislocations and Relocations: A Conference on the Contemporary Cinemas of Latin America, the Caribbean, and their Diasporas, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
May 2004, “Diasporic and Marginal Crossroads: The Films of Frances
Negrón-Muntaner.” UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, Los Angeles, CA.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
May 2009: “No Happy Endings: Screenwriters and Corporations in Two
Media Centers (1950s Havana and 1990s Bogota).” Paper presented at the International Communication Association Conference, Chicago, IL.
March 2007: “The Cuban Connections: Havana and Regional Television
Exchanges during the 1950s” and “¿Qué pasa U.S.A.?: US Spanish-Language Television and the Financial Exploitation of Media Professionals” Paper and workshop presentations at Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Chicago, IL.
October 2006: “Confronting Whiteness: Mundo real and ESAA-TV
Programming.” Paper presented at the Puerto Rican Studies Association Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
March 2006: “Going Places: Latino Diasporic Films at Home and Abroad.”
Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
May 2005: “We are Latinos and Have Produced TV Too!: WPBT- PBS’s
¿Qué pasa U.S.A.? (1975-1980).” Paper presented at the International Communication Association Conference, New York City, NY. Panel chair and presenter.
March 2004: “Mulatas are Beautiful Too: Media Discourses about Miss World
1975.” Paper presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA. Panel chair and presenter.
May 2003: “Caribbean Negritos: Ramón Rivero, Blackface, and Black Voice
in Puerto Rico.” Paper presented at the International Communication Association Conference, San Diego, CA.
March 2003: “Bringing the Soul?: Soul Train, Afros, and Blackface in 1970s
Puerto Rican Commercial Television.” Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association Conference, Dallas, TX.
March 2003: “The Racial, Gender, Sexual, and Political Ramifications of a
Televisual Afro.” Paper presented at the Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Minneapolis, MN.
October 2001: “The Performance and Reception of Televisual ‘Ugliness’
in Yo soy Betty la fea.” Paper presented at the Global Fusion Conference, St. Louis, MO.
May 2001: “Erasing Blackness: Media Construction of ‘Race’ in Mi
Familia, The First Puerto Rican Situation Comedy with a Black Family.” Paper presented at the International Communication Association Conference, Washington, D.C.
March 2000: “‘De un pájaro las dos alas’: The Cuban Influence in Puerto Rican
Television.” Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association Conference, Miami, FL.
May 1999: “Colliding Tensions: Machismo, Virginity, and Women’s
Oppression in Puerto Rico’s Television Family.” Paper presented at the International Communication Association Conference, San Francisco, CA.
March 1999: “Revolutionary Culture: Political Theatre of the 1960’s and
1970’s in the Puerto Rican Diaspora.” Paper presented at the National Association of Ethnic Studies Conference, Orlando, FL.
February 1999: “Pa’lante mi gente que esto cuesta: A Production Ethnography of
a Puerto Rican Television Sitcom.” Paper presented at the Institute of Latin American Studies Student Association Conference, Austin, TX.
May 1998: “Hecho en Puerto Rico (Made in Puerto Rico): The Construction
and ‘Packaging’ of Mi Familia (My Family) within Puerto Rico’s Local and Foreign Programming.” Paper presented at the Bastards of Imperialism Conference, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania
Graduate Course
“Television Genres”
Indiana University
Graduate Courses
“Race and Popular Cultures in Latin America/Latino
Communities”
“Television Genres”
“Methods of Media Research”
Undergraduate Courses
“Television: Local and Global Perspectives” (upper division)
“Blackness & Popular Culture:
U.S. and Latin America” (upper division)
“Latinos and the Media” (upper division)
“Race and the Media” (lower division)
“Trends in Latino/a Cinema” (lower division)
University of the Incarnate Word
Graduate Courses
“Communication Theory”
“Research Methods”
“Latino Media”
“Television: Local and Global”
Undergraduate Courses
“Theories of Communication” (upper division)
“Hispanic/Latino Media” (upper division)
Hostos Community College & Metropolitan University
Undergraduate Courses
“Art and Civilization” (lower division)
“Spanish Composition” (lower division)
“Introduction to Literature”(lower division)
“Introduction to Theatre” (lower division)
University of Texas
Teaching Assistant “Development Communication”
“History of U.S. Latino Media”
“Communication and Ethnic Groups”
“Latin American Cinema”
Thesis and Dissertation Director
Shana M. Higgins, “Documenting Identity, Filming/Framing the Nation from the Diaspora: Puerto Rico and Cuba.” M.A. Thesis, Indiana University, 2006.
Chad Beck, “Azteca Television, Hybrid Cultural Identity, and Transnational Commercialization.” Ph.D. dissertation, in-progress.
Shelley Bradfield, “Home Affairs”: The Post-Apartheid Politics of Identity and Nation-Building on South African Television.” Ph.D. dissertation, in-progress.
SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Research “Race & Independent Media Project.” UCLA, Chicano Studies
Research Center (2002-2005).
“Redefining Cuban Americanness: WPBT- PBS’s ¿Qué
pasa U.S.A.? (1975-1980).” Presentation on Identity and Interpretation in Latin American Culture, Herman B Wells Library, Indiana University-Bloomington (September 2005).
“Latino or Hispanic: What Channel is that On?” Presentation on Contemporary American Culture, Indiana University-Bloomington (August 2004).
“Panorama de las comunicaciones entre comunidades transnacionales de América del Norte y Latinoamérica.” Media consultant. Research project sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation. Headquarters-Bogotá, Colombia (November 2003)
Roundtable on Latin American and Spanish Caribbean Studies. University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN (April 2002).
Panel on “Nation and Culture.” Cultural Studies Conference, Indiana University-Bloomington, IN (February 2002).
Interviews Aquí y Ahora (television), Univision Network, Miami (2008); “Barry Gordon from Left Field” (radio), KCAA, Los Angeles (2007); “Viewpoint with Jean Dean” (radio), WRBC, Huntington, West Virginia (2007); Herald News, New Jersey (2006); Prohibido olvidar (television), WIPR, Puerto Rico’s Public Television Station (2006); Hoy en la noticias (radio), WRTU-University of Puerto Rico Radio Station (2006).
Journal Article Referee Cinema Journal (December 2007); American Anthropologist
& Manuscript Reviewer (October 2006); Communication Yearbook 31 (January 2006); Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media (September 2005); Chicana/Latina Studies (December 2004); Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (August 2004); Communication Theory (December 2003); Centro Journal (March 2002, August 2003, December 2005); University of Minnesota Press (March 2008); Duke University Press (August 2007, September 2005); Rutgers University Press (September 2008, November 2007).
Conference Paper Referee Society for Cinema and Media Studies Program Committee (October 2006); School of Communications Graduate Research Forum, Temple University (February 2006); International Communication Association Conference (November 2005).
Organizer and coordinator of the visit of Professor Joel Zito Araujo (fall 2002)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
International Communication Association (ICA)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
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