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Andre Cavalcante is an Associate Professor with a dual appointment in the Media Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality departments at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on LGBTQ issues in media, audience studies, and the qualitative analysis of media's role in everyday life.
Dr. Cavalcante’s first book, Struggling for Ordinary: Media and Transgender Belonging in Everyday Life (NYU Press), examines how media and technology impact transgender individuals’ experiences through ethnography and interviews. His current project, Life in Purple: Young, Queer, and Connected in the American South, investigates how digital media reshapes LGBTQ youth belonging in Virginia and North Carolina.
His work has been published in journals such as Television & New Media, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Feminist Media Studies, as well as in anthologies including Reality Television: Oddities of Culture and Watching While Black: Centering the Television of Black Audiences. He is a member of the Graduate Faculty.
Dr. Cavalcante holds a PhD from the University of Michigan, along with an MA and BS from New York University. He teaches courses such as MDST 7701: Media and Everyday Life and WGS 5559: LGBTQ Issues in the Media.
