Raquel Moreira
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies
Expertise
Feminist and queer of color critique; performance studies; normative and marginalized femininities in media
My teaching and research focus on the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality in media and performance communication contexts. I enjoy helping students make connections between critical theory and their everyday lives, including their own role in seeking and actualizing a better world for all. Having taught media and feminist studies for about 10 years now, I am constantly learning with and from my students and the evolving contexts around us.
My research informs my teaching, as my primary scholarly focus is feminist and queer of color critique of artistic performances and media texts of all sorts. In my book, Bitches Unleashed: Performance and Embodied Politics in Favela Funk (Peter Lang, 2020), for instance, I collect an assembly of texts (personal and media interviews, live and recorded performances, social media posts, music videos, etc.) to both challenge and re-envision the potential of embodied politics from a transnational feminist perspective. I have published portions of this research in Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture (2020 Monograph of the Year Award from NCA’s GLBTQ Communication Division), Women’s Studies in Communication (2018 Feminist Scholar of the Year from the Organization for Research on Women and Communication), and more.