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Saturday, April 16 • 10:45am - 12:45pm
Sentimiento Vocal to Fan Voces
Lorena Alvarado, “Sonic Motherhood”
María Elena Cepeda and Alejandra Rosales, “An Indecent Proposal: Latino Masculinity and the Audience in Latina/o Music Video”
Lillian Gorman, “The Transcultural Flows of Bachata in Mexican Chicago: U.S. Latino/a Identity, Popular Music, and Latinidad”
Michelle Rivera, “Postracial Orientations of Latin Crossover: A Case Study of Pop Star ‘Nigga’/Flex”

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Lorena Alvarado

Lorena Alvarado holds a PhD in Culture and Performance from UCLA. Currently, she is a Visiting Scholar at Rice University’s Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Her manuscript, Corporealities of Feeling: Sentimiento, Feminism, and Transnationalism, develops a feminist... Read More →
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María Elena Cepeda

María Elena Cepeda is Associate Professor of Latina/o Studies at Williams College. Her research and teaching focus on the intersection of gender and ethno-racial identity in transnational Latina/o media and popular culture, media audiences, and personal aesthetics. Cepeda is the... Read More →
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Lillian Gorman

Lillian Gorman is an Assistant Professor and Director of Spanish for Heritage Learners at the University of Arizona. Her research agenda is committed to engaging Latino/a cultural studies with sociolinguistics, and her research interests focus on issues of language and identity within... Read More →
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Michelle Rivera

Michelle Rivera, PhD is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Center for Institutional Diversity and the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan. Her research spans latina/o studies, digital media, popular music, and fan studies. Rivera is interested ways Latinidad... Read More →
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Alejandra Rosales

Alejandra Rosales recently graduated from Williams College with a degree in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, American Studies, and a concentration in Latina/o Studies. As a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research Fellow she undertook various research projects that centered on women... Read More →


Saturday April 16, 2016 10:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Hyatt House 201 5th Avenue N, Seattle, WA 98109