Pedagogies for Doing Global Media
Thursday March 23rd, 2023 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm EST
Lia Wolock
Lia Wolock is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research and teaching examine the racialization of minority and transnational communities in popular and community media, with a focus on the South Asian American diaspora and its media production and curation cultures. She holds a PhD in Communication Studies and an MA in South Asian Studies from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Her work has appeared in Television and New Media, The Journal of American History, and the edited collection Race and Media: Critical Approaches.
Dr. Wolock’s current book project, Producing South Asian America: Diaspora, Race, and Digital Activism, charts the emergence of a new North American racial identity, unpacking contestations over its shape and meaning, and revealing the community media labor that undergirds it.
Dr. Wolock has been teaching university courses and developing pedagogical materials on media studies and globalization since 2010, with an emphasis on applying postcolonial and feminist perspectives. She is currently developing a global media studies teaching guide aimed toward: a) introducing US undergraduate students to the scholarly research process and, b) teaching them to apply a critical-cultural media and communication studies perspective to analyze (digital) media cultures around the globe.
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez is an assistant professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, where he researches and teaches global media cultures, digital technologies, border studies, infrastructure studies, and Latin American media.
His forthcoming monograph, Border Tunnels (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) examines how media forms and technologies shape perceptions about the borderlands and help reimagine the stakes of border-making practices. His second book analyzes the legacy, popularity, and queer significance of the Mexican film Y Tu Mamá También and is part of the Queer Film Classics series at McGill-Queen’s University Press. He also regularly writes about the class, race, and gender politics of Netflix’s Spanish-language programming. His work has appeared in the journals Feminist Media Histories, Television & New Media, Lateral, Film Quarterly, Jump Cut, and the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, as well as several edited collections.
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