Biography: Yeidy M. Rivero is an Associate Professor in the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures, and the Program of American Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Contact:

Department of Screen Arts & Cultures University of Michigan
6330 North Quad 105 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285

E-mail: yrivero[at]umich[dot]edu

Degree(s):

Ph.D., Department of Radio, TV, & Film, University of Texas at Austin
M.A. Theatre Department, State University of New York at Stony Brook
B.A. Drama Department, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras

Teaching and Research Interests: Television Studies; Global Media; Race and Media; Spanish Caribbean, Latin American, Latino/a, and African Diaspora Studies

Selected Publications:

Books

Broadcasting Modernities: Cuban Commercial TV, 1950-1960 (book manuscript, in progress)
Tuning Out Blackness: Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television. Duke University Press, 2005.

Articles

"Diasporic and Marginal Crossroads: The Films of Frances Negrón-Muntaner.” Latino Studies Journal, September 2009, 7 (3): 336–356.
"Havana as a 1940s-1950s Latin American Media Capital.” Critical Studies in Media Communication, August 2009, 26 (3): 275-293.
"Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Television, 1950-1953.” Cinema Journal, Spring 2007, 42 (3): 3-25.
"Channeling Blackness/Challenging Racism: A Theatrical Response.” Global Media and Communication, December 2006, 2 (3): 335-354.


Other Activities:

Visiting resident scholar, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania (Fall 2009)

Trustee’s Teaching Award, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University-Bloomington (2008)

Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2003-2004).