Past President, 2023–2025
President, 2021–2023
President–Elect, 2019–2021

Biography

Priscilla Peña Ovalle is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Cinema Studies and Graduate Faculty member of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies (IRES) at the University of Oregon. Ovalle is an interdisciplinary media scholar focusing on production and performance, with training in film and new media production (Emerson College), Cinema & Media Studies (USC), and American Studies and Ethnicity (USC). 

Degrees

Ph.D., Cinema & Media Studies, University of Southern California
M.A., Cinema & Media Studies, University of Southern California
B.S., Media Arts, Emerson College 

Teaching and Research Interests

media production & performance, race/ethnicity & representation, film & television aesthetics, media theory & practice in the humanities 

Selected Publications

"Kim Kimble: Race, Gender, and the Celebrity Hairstylist." Media Industries 6.1 (2019): 117–134.

Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2011.

"Urban Sensualidad: Jennifer Lopez, Flashdance and the MTV Hip-Hop Re-Generation." Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 18.3 (2008): 253–268.

Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Member, SCMS Antiracism, Equity, and Diversity Committee (2019–present)

Advisory Board Member, Sounding Out!: The Sound Studies Blog (2012–present)

Board Member, Console-ing Passions International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media and Feminism (2010–2022)

Program Committee Chair, 2021 SCMS Conference (virtual)

President-Elect, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (2019–21)

President, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (2021–2023)

Contact

Department of Cinema Studies
University of Oregon
1286 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
ovallescms@gmail.com

Twitter: racesexstardom

Instagram: prof.ovalle

Pronouns: She/They