Keara Goin

Associate Professor, General Faculty

Wilson Hall 242

Office Hours:

Mondays 1:00pm-3:00pm or by appointment.

Class Schedule:

MDST 3050: History of Media - Tues/Thurs 11:00am - 12:15pm

MDST 3105: Latino/a Media Studies - Mon/Wed 2:00pm - 3:15pm

MDST 4510: Celebrities of Color - Monday 3:30pm - 6:00pm

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. Currently working on her first book project, Mediated Dominicanidad (Indiana U Press), her most recent publications can be found 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.