Keara Goin
Director of Undergraduate Program
Director of Undergraduate Programs and Associate Professor, General Faculty
Office Address/Hours
Wilson Hall 204
Tuesday 3:00pm-5:00pm or by appointment.
Tuesday 3:00pm-5:00pm or by appointment.
Class Schedule
MDST 3050: History of Media - Tues./Thur., 11:00am - 12:15pm
MDST 3504.002: Mexican Cinema - Tues./Thur., 12:30pm - 1:45pm
Biography
Keara Goin's research interests focus on the role of media in identity negotiation among Afro-Latina/os, media-based racialization of Afro-Latina/os, and the performativity and intersections of race and gender. She has conducted fieldwork in the Dominican Republic and New York City as part of a continuing ethnographic study on Dominican identity. Her first book, Mediated Dominicanidad (Indiana U Press), is out now. You can also find her work in Latino Studies and Celebrity Studies. Goin earned her PhD from the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin and received her MA in Anthropology from the University of South Carolina. She teaches Latina/o Media Studies, Celebrity Studies, Celebrities of Color, Intersectionality and the Media, History of Media, and Mexican Cinema.