Associate Professor
B.A. and M.A. California State University Long Beach
Dr. Nina Maria Reich is an Associate Professor in the department of
Communication Studies. She earned a B.A. and M.A. in Communication
Studies at California State University Long Beach, and completed her
doctorate degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Reich is a current Carnegie fellow of the prestigious California
Campus Compact-Carnegie Foundation Faculty Fellows: Service-Learning
for Political Engagement Program.
Dr. Reich teaches courses in
rhetorical theory, rhetorical methods, rhetoric and social movements,
visual communication, gender, and service-learning and politics. She is
also the faculty advisor for Loyola Marymount University’s Center for
Service and Action’s alternative break trip to Ciudad Juárez and
Chihuahua, Mexico.
Dr. Reich’s research interests include
critical rhetoric and public sphere theories, individual and group
identities in relation to “the materiality” of social movements, and
gender, communication, and culture. Her co-authored essay, “Queer Eye’s
Critical Performances of Desire: Cultivating Queer Publics with an
(Un)Civil Tongue was recently accepted for publication in Text and
Performance Quarterly. She is also finalizing a manuscript analyzing a
queer feminist re-visioning of la Virgen de Guadalupe in relation to the
creation of a Chicana counterpublic. Stemming from her research and
first-hand activist work in Mexico, Dr. Reich is concurrently working on
several manuscripts for a larger book project examining the discursive
and visual rhetorical strategies of the mothers of the murdered and
disappeared women in their demands for justice from the State within the
femicide in Juárez, Mexico.
Contact
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Ext. 86076