Camilla Fojas

Camilla Fojas is a Foundation Professor at the School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University (ASU). Her work focuses on infrastructures of empire, surveillance, and race, particularly at the U.S.-Mexico border. She is completing a book on border infrastructures and exploring automation of security at borders.

• Education: Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Film/Cultural Studies of the Americas) from NYU; MA in Comparative Literature from NYU; BA in Comparative Literature and Philosophy from UC Santa Cruz.

Her research bridges material and mediated cultures, analyzing how borders, surveillance systems, and pop culture reflect imperial power dynamics. Recent publications include Border Optics (2021) on surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico frontier, Zombies, Migrants, and Queers (2017) on race and capitalism, and Islands of Empire (2014) on U.S. cultural imperialism.

Fojas teaches advanced courses in American Studies theory and methodology (AMS 502) and supervises doctoral theses (AMS 599). She has engaged in interdisciplinary research on automation in border security and the cultural politics of crisis capitalism.