publications

Books

Border Tunnels: Media and the Infrastructures of the U.S.-Mexico Frontier (University of Minnesota Press, 2023)

Y Tu Mamá También (Queer Film Classics) (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023)

Journal Articles

“First-Person Shooters, Tunnel Warfare, and the Racial Infrastructures of the US–Mexico Border,”  Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association (December 2021) <link / pdf>

“Citizens May Laugh: Latinx Comedy and the Politics of Documented Migration,”  Tecmerin: Revista de Ensayos Audiovisuales (December 2021), <link in English / link en español>

“Postcolonial Media Theory,”  Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication (August 2021), co-written with Viviane Saglier <link / pdf>

“The Narco-stories of Kate del Castillo: Stardom, Gender, and Entrepreneurship in a Transnational Context,”  Television and New Media, Vol. 22, No. 3 (March 2021) <link / pdf>

“Luis Miguel: La serie, Class-Based Collective Memory, and Streaming Television in Mexico,”  Journal for Cinema and Media Studies, Vol. 59, No. 3 (Spring 2020) <link / pdf>

“The Female Narcotrafficker’s Tongue | La Lengua de la Narcotraficante,”  NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies (Spring 2019) <link>

“A Global Cinematic Experience: Cinépolis, Film Exhibition, and Luxury Branding,”  Journal for Cinema and Media Studies [Cinema Journal], Vol. 58, No. 3 (Spring 2019) <link / pdf>

“Toward a Cinema of Slow Violence,”  Film Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 3 (Spring 2018) <link / pdf>

“Pain & Gain, Global Fitness Culture, and the Neoliberal Ascetic Ideal,”  Jump Cut 58 (Spring 2018) <link>

“The Datalogical Drug Mule,”  Feminist Media Histories, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Summer 2017) <link / pdf>

Book Chapters

“Telemundo: Telenovelas for the Twenty-First Century,” in From Networks to Netflix: A Guide to Changing Channels (Routledge, 2022) <link / pdf>

“Ambos Nogales Repair: Critical Play and the Infrastructures of the Border,” in The Routledge Companion to Media and the City (Routledge, 2022) <link / pdf>

“An Animated Tale of Two Pandemics,” in Pandemic Media: Towards a Preliminary Inventory (Meson Press, 2020) <link / pdf>

“Tunnel Risk and the Mediation of Border Security Spectacle,” in The Routledge Companion to Media and Risk (Routledge, 2020) <link / pdf>

“‘Feeling Pirate’: Media Piracy as Affective Practice in Mexican-American Experience,” in Piracy and Intellectual Property in Latin America (Routledge, 2020) <link / pdf>

“Working Out as Creative Labor, or the Building of the Male Superhero’s Body,” in Arrow and Superhero Television (McFarland, 2017) <link / pdf>

“Tunnelling Media: Geoblocking and Online Border Resistance,” in Geoblocking and Global Video Culture (Institute of Network Cultures, 2016) <link / pdf>

Digital Publications

“Listening to a Train of Thought: Voice Memos as Alternative to Discussion Board Posts,” Flow TV: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture, March 15, 2021 <link>

“Media’s Border Logics: Reflecting on ‘Platforms to the World’ Symposium,” Migration Mapping, September 25, 2020 <link>

“Playful Metros and the Aesthetics of Disrepair,” Flow TV: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture, April 30, 2018 <link>

“Mapping the Narco-televisual Universe,” Flow TV: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture, February 26, 2018 <link>

“The Cuteness of Tunneling Media,” Flow TV: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture, October 30, 2017 <link>

“Elena of Avalor and the Fantastical World of Latinx Identity,” Cléo: A Journal of Film and Feminism, December 15, 2016 <link>

“‘Blim and Chill’: Telenovelas and Class Ideologies in the Online Streaming Wars,” Flow TV: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture, November 29, 2016 <link>

“DreamWorks Animation Downsizes,” Media Industries Project Research, February 11, 2015 <link>

“Small Festivals, Youth, and the Monterrey International Film Festival,” Mediatico, September 28, 2014 <link>