Susana Loza

Biography
Susana Loza is an associate professor of media culture at Hampshire College. She received B.A. degrees in Political Science and Psychology from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. She teaches cultural studies, critical race theory, film and media studies, popular music, feminist theory, and ethnic studies. Her research interests include the social construction of race and sex in speculative media; power, privilege and cultural appropriation; gender and ethnic performativity in digital spaces; the politics of sampling and remixing; colonial cosplay in steampunk; the activist potential of social media; and the post-racial turn in popular culture.

Professor Loza’s publications include “Imperial Fictions: Doctor Who, Post-Racial Slavery, and Other Liberal Humanist Fantasies,” “Steampunk Style and the After-Life of Empire,” “Hashtag Feminism, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, and the Other #FemFuture,” “Playing Alien in Post-Racial Times,” “Samples of the Past: Performative Nostalgia, Illicit Sounds, and Cultural Transformation in Latin House Music,” “Sampling (Hetero)sexuality: Diva-ness and Discipline in Electronic Dance Music,” “Vampires, Queers, and Other Monsters: Against the Homonormativity of True Blood,” and “Orientalism and Film Noir: Subjective Sins and Othered Desires.” Her current project, Speculative Imperialisms: Monstrosity and Masquerade in Post-Racial Times (Lexington Books, Forthcoming 2016), explores the resurgence of racial masquerade in science fiction, horror, and fantasy and contemplates the fundamental, albeit changing, role that ethnic simulation plays in American and British cultures in a putatively post-racial and post-colonial era.

Professor Loza has a professed love for House music and mash-ups, which has resulted in the creation of many mix CDs for students. While she is an openly active consumer of mash-up culture, rumor has it that she secretly partakes in her fair share of production as well. While no student has officially confirmed this, she suspiciously "pleads the fifth" whenever asked.

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Courses

 * Commodities of Desire: Racialized Representation and Gendered Signs in Popular Culture
 * Contemporary Music Cultures
 * Gender, Race, and Sexuality in the Digital Age
 * The Politics of Popular Culture
 * Immigration Nation: Ethnic Stereotypes, US Politics, and The Media
 * Sample! Remix! Mash!: The Cultural Logic of Pop
 * Alien/Freak/Monster: Race, Sex, and Otherness in Sci-Fi and Horror
 * Circuits of Power: Music, Race, and Theory