Susana Loza

Susana Loza is a Professor at Hampshire College, specializing in Critical Race, Gender, and Media Studies. She teaches interdisciplinary courses at the intersection of cultural studies, critical race theory, and media analysis.

• B.A. in political science and psychology from Stanford University
• Ph.D. in comparative ethnic studies from the University of California at Berkeley

Her research focuses on the social construction of race and gender in speculative media, cultural appropriation, gender performativity in digital spaces, and the colonial dimensions of gaming. She examines how popular culture reinforces or challenges systemic power structures.

Professor Loza's courses include:

• Gaming the System: Race, Queerness, and the Politics of Play
• Alien/Freak/Monster: Race, Sex, and Disability in Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy
• Hashtags, Memes, and Trolls: Politics in the Age of Social Media
• Setter Mythologies, Imperial Ideologies: Colonialism & Popular Culture
• Sonic Politics: Culture, Power, and Popular Music
• Settler Nation: Race, Immigration, and US Politics
• The Post-Racial State: Ideology, Politics and the Media
• Sample!Remix!Slash!: Fandom, Appropriation, and The Law

These courses integrate frameworks from Ethnic Studies, Critical Race Theory, Queer Studies, and Media Studies.