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Dr. Lucia Palmer

Part Time Instructor
Credentials: PhD

Office Hours: Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to noon, Microsoft Teams
Locations: (Campus & Office)
Syllabi:
Teaching and Research Interests: Media studies, women's and gender studies, border studies
Education: (All institutions attended and degrees or credentials earned)PhD in Media Studies and Graduate Portfolio in Women's and Gender Studies from the University of Texas at Austin;
MA in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Colorado, Boulder;
BA in Broadcasting and Cinema from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Publications and Scholarships: (Last 5 Years)“Patriarchal protectors of the national body: Violence, masculinity, and gendered constructions of the U.S./Mexico border. In K. Boyle and S. Berridge (eds.), Routledge Companion to Gender, Media and Violence. London: Routledge.

“Saving Whiteness: Spectacular Violence and the Politics of White Supremacist Patriarchy.” Feminist Media Studies (2021).

Silva, Cláudia, Lucia Palmer, Valentina Nisi & Joseph Straubhaar. “Teaching Social History Through Locative Media: A Case Study in Austin, Texas.” Disertaciones: Revista de Difusíon Cultural 12.1 (2018): 59-74.

“The Final Girl at the U.S.-Mexico Border: The Politics of Saving and Surviving in Undocumented (2010).” Postmodern Culture 28.1 (2017). doi: 10.1353/pmc.2017.0010

“Rhizomatic Writings on the Wall: Graffiti and Street Art in Cochabamba, Bolivia as Nomadic Visual Politics.” International Journal of Communication 11 (2017): 3655-3684.

“Melancholia and Memory in Ciudad Juárez: Lourdes Portillo’s Señorita Extraviada (2001) and the Communal Mourning of Feminicide.” Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas 14.3 (2017): 367-385.

“Sluts, Brats, and Sextuplets: The Dangers of Reality Television for Children and Teen Participants.” Studies in Popular Culture 36.1 (2013): 123–143.


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