Jessica Retis

Retis, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Affiliated Faculty with the Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for Border and Global Journalism, and the Human Rights Practice Program at the University of Arizona. From 2008 to 2019 she was an Associate Professor in the interdisciplinary Minor of Spanish-language Journalism and Master in Communications programs at California State University. Retis recently joined UA to help launch and lead the UA first bilingual journalism program. She has been appointed visiting scholar at New York University, University of Tokyo, Florida International University, City University London, London School of Economics, and the University of Westminster.

Retis holds a Major of Communications (University of Lima), a Masters of Latin American Studies (UNAM, Mexico) and a Ph.D. in Contemporary Latin America (Complutense University of Madrid). Her areas of research include international migration, diasporas, and the media, ethnic media, diversity and the media, and Latino media in Europe, North America and Asia. She is co-author of Latin Americans in London: Narratives of Migration, Relocation and Belonging (Palgrave, 2020), co-editor of The Handbook of diaspora, Media and Culture (Willey, 2019) and author of Media Spaces of Immigration in Madrid: Genesis and Evolution (OMCI, 2006).

This event was co-sponsored by The Latinx Project and organized by the Media Culture and Communication Department at New York University.