Juan Llamas-Rodriguez
Juan Llamas-Rodriguez is assistant professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and affiliate faculty with the Center for Latinx and Latin American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His scholarly research encompasses media and globalization, streaming media, border studies, infrastructure studies, and Latin American film and television. His book Border Tunnels: A Media Theory of the US-Mexico Underground (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) argues for underground tunnels as media figures that reimagine the stakes of border-making practices. His work has also been published in journals such as Social Text; Feminist Media Histories; Television and New Media; Film Quarterly; Lateral; Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience; and the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, as well as several edited collections. He is one of the co-editors of [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, the first peer-reviewed open-access academic journal of videographic criticism, and the host of the Global Media Cultures podcast.