Angharad N Valdivia
Angharad N. Valdivia is a Research Professor of Communications and Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also the head of the Media and Cinema Studies Department, Interim Director of the Institute of Communications Research , and Editor-in-chief of Communication Theory. Her research and teaching focuses on transnational popular culture studies, with special attention to issues of gender and ethnicity. She has published extensively on issues of transnational Latina...See more
Angharad N. Valdivia is a Research Professor of Communications and Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also the head of the Media and Cinema Studies Department, Interim Director of the Institute of Communications Research , and Editor-in-chief of Communication Theory. Her research and teaching focuses on transnational popular culture studies, with special attention to issues of gender and ethnicity. She has published extensively on issues of transnational Latina Studies, exploring the tension between agency and structure in media production and consumption. See less