About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. My scholarship examines how the body is operationalized as a critical communicative tool across popular culture from reality television to social media, but of late I am focused on how its representation within the digital sphere works to produce particular subjectivities. My interest is in how media work to both constitute and reflect our understanding of embodied identity, and I see my work as unpacking the raced and gendered systems of power that inform this social imaginary.

I am, at heart, an interdisciplinary scholar, and my work unites communication and digital media studies with queer theory and gender studies, critical race theory, Latina/o Studies and disability studies. My work has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed publications, including Feminist Media Studies, Communication Culture and Critique, Celebrity Studies, and most recently Critical Studies in Media Communication. I received my B.A. in Art History, with a minor in English Literature, from Swarthmore College, and my M.A. in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania.