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Dierdra Reber is an Associate Professor of Latin American Culture at the University of Kentucky. Her research focuses on 20th- and 21st-century Latin American, Latinx, and U.S. cultural production across media, emphasizing affect studies, globalization, and power dynamics. She explores how cultural epistemologies interact with neoliberalism, coloniality, and postcolonial frameworks.
Education:
- Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2006)
- B.A., Columbia University (1996)
Research Interests include: film/media studies, cultural theory, biopolitics, ecocriticism, gender/sexuality studies, and postcolonialism. Her work bridges Latin American and U.S. cultural contexts, particularly through the lens of affect and power.
Publications include Coming to Our Senses: Affect and an Order of Things for Global Culture (Columbia UP, 2016) and a forthcoming book on Alfonso Cuarón’s filmography. Her articles analyze neoliberalism’s cultural impact, affective politics, and transnational cultural narratives.
Affiliations include the American Comparative Literature Association, MLA, and LASA. She actively contributes to interdisciplinary fields like Social Theory and Gender Studies.
