People

Interests:

My research interests include the study of digital media and telecommunication policy, Latina/ethnic media studies, and global communications. My work promotes "engaged scholarship" and aims to address inequality, power, community voices, and the role of intersectionalities in shaping media and cultural spaces.  My recent co-edited books are: Mothers in Academia. (May 2013). Columbia University Press; Soap Operas and Telenovelas in the Digital Age: Global Industries and New Audiences. (2011). Peter Lang Publishers.

ScholarWorks (including examples of community-based student work):          http://works.bepress.com/mari_castaneda/doctype.html#presentation 

Director of Diversity Advancement:    http://www.umass.edu/sbs/faculty/search_guidelines.htm

Profiles of my work at UMass Amherst:    http://www.umass.edu/sbs/faculty/profiles/castaneda.htm      http://www.umass.edu/researchnext/giving-voice

Education:

Ph.D. (2000) University of California, San Diego                                                                                      B.A. (1993) University of California, Los Angeles

CV:

Mari Castaneda - long CV - spring2013-FINAL.pdf

Courses Taught:

Undergraduate: Media and Public Policy; Digital Media and the Built Environment; Spanish-language Media and Latino Cultural Production. Graduate: Political Economy of Communication.

Publications:

BOOKS

Mothers in Academia. (May 2013). Castañeda, M. and Isgro, K. (Eds.).  New York, NY: Columbia University Press. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-16004-9/mothers-in-academia

Soap Operas and Telenovelas in the Digital Age: Global Industries and New Audiences. (2011). Rios, D.I. and Castañeda, M. (Eds.).  New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishers. http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=60718&concordeid=310823

ESSAYS

Television set production in the era of digital TV.  (2013).  In A. Valdivia and V. Mayer (Eds.), The international encyclopedia of media studies: Production (approx. 25 pages).  Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405193565,descCd-tableOfContents.html

"Feeling good while buying goods: Promoting commodity activism to Latina consumers."  (2012).  In R. Mukherjee and S. Banet-Weiser (Eds.), Commodity activism: Social action in neoliberal times (approx. 25 pages).  New York, NY: New York University Press. http://nyupress.org/books/book-details.aspx?bookid=6902#.URkQ0RxGUjA

"The transcultural political economy of telenovelas and soap operas in the digital age."  (2011).  In D. Rios and M. Castañeda (Eds.), Soap operas and telenovelas in the digital age: Global industries and new audiences (pp. 3-19).  New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishers. http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=60718&concordeid=310823

"¡Adelante! Advancing social justice through Latina/o community media."  (2011)  In J. Pooley, S.C. Jansen and L. Taub (Eds.), Media and democracy: Critical media scholarship and social justice (pp. 115-130).  New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. http://us.macmillan.com/mediaandsocialjustice/JeffersonPooley

"Sí, se puede: Teaching Latina/o studies in predominantly white universities."  (2009).  Latino Studies Journal, 7(2) 250-251.

"Transformative learning through community engagement."  (2008).  Latino Studies Journal, 6, 319-326.

"The importance of Spanish-language and Latino media."  (2008).  In A. Valdivia (Ed.), Latina/o communication studies today (pp.51-68).  Peter Lang Publishers.  http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=46397

"Latinidad, cultural policy, and Spanish-language media in the U.S.A."  (2008).  In A. Laó-Montes and N.R. Mirabal (Eds.), Technofuturos: Critical interventions in Latina/o studies (pp. 255-268).  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/ISBN/9780739125786

"Rethinking the U.S. Spanish-language media market in an era of deregulation."  (2008).  In P. Chakravartty and Y. Zhao (Eds.), Global Communications: Toward a transcultural political economy (pp. 201-218).  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/ISBN/9780742540453

"The complicated transition to broadcast digital television in the United States."  (2007).  Television and New Media, 8(2), 91-106.

Projects:

Works in progress include two essays on the following topics: Latina/Latino labor in U.S. media industries, and the role of local Latina/o community media in challenging narratives of immigration.