María Elena Cepeda
Contact:
mcepeda@williams.edu
Stetson B21
413.597.2523
Office Hours:
On leave 2008-2009
(Available via e-mail only)
Assistant Professor, Latina/o Studies
B.A., Kenyon College
M.A., University of Michigan
PhD, University of Michigan
Research Interests:
U.S. Latina/o and Latin American popular culture, Media Studies, Language politics, Transnational Studies, Community-based pedagogical approaches. Spanish for Heritage Speakers, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Selected Publications:
Books:
Musical Imagi/Nation: U.S. Colombians and the Latin(o) Music "Boom" (New York: New York University Press, in press)
Co-editor (with Carlos Alamo-Pastrana), "Popular Culture and Youth Latinidades: (Re)Constructing Community, from the Inside and Out" (special issue of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, under review)
Musical Migrations: Transnationalism and Cultural Hybridity in Latin(o) America (with Cándida F. Jáquez and Frances R. Aparicio, editors; St. Martin's Press, 2003)
Articles & Essays:
“Singing the ‘Star-Spanglish Banner’: The Politics and Pathologization of Bilingualism in U.S. Popular Media," Beyond el Barrio: Everyday Life in Latina/o America (Gina M. Pérez, Frank Guridy, and Adrian Burgos, Jr., eds.; under review)
"Whose Musical Imagi/Nation?: Contradictory Discourses of Belonging in 'Nuestro Himno' and 'Reggaetón Latino'" (special issue of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, under review)
“When Hips Make/Mark History: Towards a Transnational Feminist Reading of Latin(a) American Music Video" (special issue of Women and Performance, Alicia Arrizón and Deborah Vargas, eds.; under review)
"Survival Aesthetics: U.S. Latinas and the Negotiation of Popular Media," Latina/o Communication Studies Today (Angharad N. Valdivia, ed.; Peter Lang, 2008)
"Mirando las Estrellas: La Joven Latina en Estados Unidos," Revista Javeriana, Pontificia Universidad Javieriana, Bogotá, Colombia (January/February 2005)
"Miami: From 'Instant City' to Global Music Capital," FORUM/ Magazine of the Florida Humanities Council (Winter 2004)
"Shakira as the Idealized, Transnational Citizen: A Case Study of Colombianidad in Transition," Latino Studies, 1.2, 210-232 (2003)
"Columbus Effects": The Politics of Crossover and Chronology within the Latin(o) Music "Boom," Discourse, 23.1, 242-267 (Winter 2001)
"Mucho loco for Ricky Martin, or: The Politics of Chronology, Crossover and Language within the Latin(o) Music 'Boom,'" Popular Music and Society, 24.3, 55-71(Fall 2000)
"El 'Beloved Spic' que no habla English Only: oposición y resistencia en la poesía de Martín Espada, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, XXIV. 3, 517-529 (Spring 2000)