Latinos and Media Project

BIO

Professor Valdivia's research combines the areas of gender and feminist studies with ethnic studies. She brings these together in the examination of contemporary mainstream popular culture in an approach that explores the tension between agency and structure. She has conducted field research in Nicaragua, Peru, and Chile. Current research projects include hybridity theory as it applies to Latina/o Studies, ambiguity as a strategy of ethnic representation, and differentiation within Latinidad. 

Latino-Related Research & Publications

Books

Feminism, Multiculturalism and the Media: Global Diversities:, (ed.) Newbury Park: Sage, 1995.

A Latina in the Land of Hollywood and Other Essays on Media Culture. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2000.

Geographies of Latinidad: Latina/o Studies into the Twenty-First Century, co-edited with Matt Garcia. Duke: Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 2003 (forthcoming).

Latina/o Communication Studies Today. New York: Peter Lang. (ed.) (forthcoming).

Latina/os and the Media. Under review.

Latinas in mainstream popular culture: Uses and abuses of hybridity. Under review.

Journal Articles

"The Location of the Spanish in Latinidad: Examples from contemporary U.S. popular culture" (2005). Letras Femeninas, 31:2.

"Latinas as Radical Hybrid: Transnationally Gendered Traces in Mainstream Media" (2004). Global Media Journal, 2:4,. (http://lass.calumet.purdue.edu/cca/gmj/refereed.htm)

"Latina/o Communication and Media Studies Today." (2004). Communication Review, 7:2.

co-authored with Isabel Molina Guzman, "Brain, Brow or Bootie: Iconic Latinas in Contemporary Popular Culture." (2004). Communication Review, 7:2

"What is over? Ruminations from one who has already lived through another September 11." (2002). Critical Studies, Cultural Methodologies, 2:3.

"Rhythm is gonna get you! Teaching Evaluations and the Feminist Multicultural Classroom" (2001). Feminist Media Studies, 1:3.

"Difference and Identity: Symbolic and Constructivist Notions" (1999). Critical Studies in Mass Communication.

"Clueless in Hollywood: Single Moms in Contemporary Family Movies" (1998). Journal of Communication Inquiry, 22:3.

"Stereotype or Transgression? Rosie Perez in Hollywood Film" The Sociological Quarterly, 39(2), May 1998

"Xuxa at the Borders of Global Television" (principal author) with Ramona Curry (1998). Camera Obscura, 38:1.

"New Technologies, Old Issues" in Razon y Palabra, Mexico City: Mexico,
http://www.cem.itesm.mx/dacs/publicaciones/logos/ October, 1997.


"Rosie Goes to Hollywood: The Politics of Representation" in Education/ Pedagogy/ Cultural Studies, Spring 1996, Volume 18, No. 2.

"Feminist Currents in Global Studies: A Review Essay" in Journal of Communications, May 1995.

"Images of women in the Nicaraguan Revolution," Chasqui, no. 34, Apr-June 1990.

"Women-centered Media Communications within Nicaragua," Women and Language, volume XIII, number 1, Fall 1990: 59-63.

"Theoretical problems in studying women in the Third World Women and Language, volume XI, number 2, Winter 1988: 44-45.

Book Chapters

"Geographies of Latinidad: Constructing Identity in the Face of Radical Hybridity" (2005) in W. Critchlow, G. Dimitriadis, N. Dolby, and C. McCarthy [Eds.], Race, Identity, and Representation, New York: Routledge.

"Exploring Dora: Re-embodied latinidad on the Web" with S. Harewood (2005) in S. R. Mazzarella [Ed.] Girl Wide Web: Girls, the Internet, and the Negotiation of Identity.  New York: Peter Lang.

"Salsa and Latina/o Identity: Inclusions and Exclusions" (forthcoming). In m. garcia, M. Leger, and A. Valdivia >[Eds.]. Geographies of Latinidad: Mapping Latina/o Studies into the Twenty-First Century. Duke: Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

"I am not a Latina Writer, I am an American Writer: An Interview with Julia Alvarez" with matt Garcia (forthcoming). In m. garcia, M. Leger, and A. Valdivia [Eds.]. Geographies of Latinidad: Interdisciplinary Approaches into the New Century. Duke: Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

"Geographies of Latinidad: Latina/o Studies into the Twenty-First Century" with Marie Leger and matt Garcia (forthcoming). In m. garcia, M. Leger, and A. Valdivia [Eds.]. Geographies of Latinidad: Interdisciplinary Approaches into the New Century. Duke: Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

"Is Penélope to J-Lo as Culture is to Nature? Eurocentric approaches to "Latin" beauties" (2006) in M. Mendible (Ed.) Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Culture. Austin: University of Texas Press.

"It Could Happen to You: Teaching and Collegiality as Weapons to be Used Against Diverse Faculty" (forthcoming) in V. D. Heckler [ed.] Exiled from Academia: Women and Discrimination in Higher Education, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

"Disciplining the Ethnic Body: Latinidad, Hybridized Bodies, and Transnational Identities" with Isabel Molina Guzman (forthcoming) in L. Reed and P. Saukko [eds.], Governing the Female Body: Science, Media and the Production of Femininity. Albany, New York: SUNY Press.

"A Latina in the Land of Hollywood: Transgressive Possibilities" (2003) in G. Kirk and M. Okazawa-Rey [eds.], Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. Boston: McGraw Hill.

"Salsa as Popular culture: Ethnic Audiences constructing an identity" (2003) in A. Valdivia, Media Studies Companion, Oxford: Blackwell.

 "Targeting Minorities" (2003). In T. Miller (Ed.) Television Studies. London: BFI.

"Radical Hybridity: Latina/os as the Paradigmatic Transnational Post-Subculture." (2003). In D.Muggleton and R. Weinzierl [eds.] The Post-Subcultures Reader. London:
Berg Publishers.

"Community Building through dance and music: Salsa in the Midwest." (2001). M. Flores and C. von Son [eds.] Double Crossings: EntreCruzamientos. New Jersey: Ediciones Nuevo Espacio.

"Xuxa at the Borders of US TV: Negotiation over gender, race, and national identity" (2000) with Ramona Curry in Sex & Money: Feminism and Political Economy, E. Riordan and E. R. Meehan, eds. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.

"Repensando a Pedagogia para o século XXI: Garotas adolescentes, cultural popular e a política de indentidades juvenis" (1999) in Século XXI: Qual conhecimento? Qual
currículo, Luiz Heron da Silva, ed. Petrópolis, Brasil: Editora Vozes.

"A Guided Tour Through the World of One Adolescent's Girl Culture" with Rhiannon S. Bettivia, (1999) in S. Mazzarella and N. Pecora [eds.] Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture in the Creation of Identities. New York: Peter Lang.

"Gender, generation, space, and popular music" (1999) with Rhiannon S. Bettivia, in C. McCarthy et al, [eds.] Sound Identities: Music and the Cultural Politics of Education.
New York: Peter Lang.

"Big Hair and Bigger Hoops: Rosie Perez Goes to Hollywood" (1997) in J. N. Martin, T. K. Nakayama, and L. A. Flores [eds.] Readings in Cultural Contexts. New York: Mayfield.

"The Secret of my Desire: Gender, Class, and Sexuality in Catalogs" (1997) in K. T. Frith [ed.] Undressing the Ad: Reading Culture in Advertising. New York: Peter
Lang.

"Feminist Media Studies in a Global Setting: Beyond Binary Contradictions and into Multicultural Spectrums" (1995) in A. N. Valdivia [ed.] Feminism, Multiculturalism and Media Studies: Global Diversities, Newbury Park: Sage.

"Women's Revolutionary Place," (1992) in Lana F. Rakow [ed.] Making Meaning: The New Feminist Scholarship on Communication. New York: Routledge.

"U.S. Intervention in Nicaraguan and other Latin American media" (1991) in T. W. Walker (ed.) Nicaragua: Revolution and Counter- revolution, 1979-1990. Boulder: Westview Press.

Encyclopedia Entries

"Jennifer Lopez" and "Salma Hayek" (forthcoming) in Hispanic American Biographies. Oxford: Brown Publishing Group.

"Film Producers" (2005) in Suzanne Oboler and Deena Gonzales (eds.) Oxford Encyclopedia on U.S. Latinos. New York: Oxford University Press.