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Isabel Molina-Guzmán is a professor in Latina/Latino Studies, Communication, and a faculty affiliate of the Institute of Communication Research, Gender & Women’s Studies and Latin American & Caribbean Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Molina-Guzmán served as Chair of the Department of Latina/Latino Studies 2007-2008, 2009-2012. She currently serves as the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty Director of Diversity and Inclusion, and the Graduate College Faculty Director of the Sloan Universisty Center for Exemplary Mentoring.

Research Interests

ethnoracial identity
gender/sexuality
media/journalism studies
discourse analysis

Professional Information

Isabel Molina-Guzmán's research examines the relationship between ethnoracial, gender, sexual identity and media discourses in the reproduction of inequality.  She is author of Dangerous Curves: Latina Bodies in the Media (NYU Press, 2010) and Latinas and Latinos on Television: Colorblind Comedy in the Postracial Network Era (University of Arizona Press, 2018). Her works have appeared in numerous edited collected and academic journals such as Latino Studies, Journalism, Popular Communication, Critical Studies in Media and Communication.

Office Address

Department of Latina/Latino Studies
1207 W. Oregon Street
M/C 136

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Education/Academic qualification

Communication, Ph.D. , University of Pennsylvania

… → 2000

MAC, University of Pennsylvania

… → 1994

Communication, BS, Pennsylvania State University

… → 1992

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