Susan Sage Heinzelman, Director
116 Inner Campus Dr Stop A4900, GEB 4.200C, Austin Texas 78712 • 512-471-5765
Mary Beltrán
Assistant Professor — Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Contact
- E-mail: mary.beltran@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-471-0021
- Office: CMA 6.126
Biography
Mary Beltrán is an Assistant Professor of Radio-Television-Film, specializing in critical race studies and television and film studies. She also is a faculty affiliate of UT's Center for Mexican American Studies and Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. She joined the RTF faculty in Fall 2011 after having served as an Assistant and Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies at the University of Wisconsin for eight years.
Interests
The construction of race, gender, and class in U.S. television, film, and celebrity culture, with emphasis onLatina/o and mixed-race representation, and the ways in which media texts and producers articulate and challenge social hierarchies and group and national identities. Critical and cultural studies of television and film, feminist media studies, U.S. television and film history, celebrity studies, media activism and alternative media.
