Associate Professor, Latina/Latino Studies Program Research Associate Professor, Institute of Communications Research
Throughout her educational and professional experiences, Isabel Molina’s work has centered on social equity and the politics of identity. Her graduate research at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (M.A.C. ’94, Ph.D. ’00) engaged in an interdisciplinary exploration of the intersections between ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, class and culture. She is currently working on three book-length projects. The first book, Embittered Discourses (Under Review), is a revisiting of her dissertation, which examines mediated and non-mediated conservative discourses opposed to multi-lingual multicultural inclusion in public education. Her second project, Consuming the Latina Body: Global Media Representations of Latinidad (New York University Press), studies the complex representational politics surrounding U.S. Latinas/Latinos as circulated through popular news, television and film. Finally, Dr. Molina’s third book Elián González: The Politics, Media and Cultural Reader (Under Review) is an edited collaboration with Dr. Paul Allatson focusing on the popular and academic scholarship surrounding the young Cuban refugee. Dr. Molina usually attends the following conferences International Communication Association, National Communication Association, American Studies Association and Latin American Studies Association. She helped to found and served as Chair and Program Planner for the Ethnicity and Race Interest Group in Communication of the International Communication Association. COURSES Consuming Racialized Beauty
Latinas/os in the U.S.
Commodifying Difference
The Commodification of Racialized Beauty PUBLICATIONS Molina Guzmán, I. (2006). Mediating Frida: Negotiating discourses of Latina/o authenticity in global media representations of ethnic identity. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 23:3. 232-251. Molina, Guzmán, I. (2006). Covering ethnic conflicts: Tracing the discourses of race, ethnicity and difference in the local press. Journalism: Theory, Practice, Criticism, 7:3, 281-299. Molina Guzmán, I. (2005). Gendering Latinidad in the Elián news discourse about Cuban women. Latino Studies, 3, 179-204.*Lead Article.
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