María Elena Cepeda

María Elena Cepeda is Professor of Latinx Studies at Williams College, where she focuses on media and popular culture, language politics, and Latina/x feminist disability studies. Cepeda is a founding member of the US Colombian Editorial Collective. She is also author of Musical ImagiNation: U.S.-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom (New York University Press), co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Media (Routledge) and co-editor of Reimagining US Colombianidades: Transnational subjectivities, cultural expressions and political contestations (Palgrave Macmillan). She is currently working on the book Listening Like a Failed Colombiana: Diasporic Reverb and the Social Place of Latina Madness  as well as co-editing the volume Latinx Colombianidades: Diasporic Regionalisms and National Erasures. Cepeda’s more recent writing has appeared in publications such as Communication, Culture & Critique, Latino Studies, Flow Journal, Latinx Talk, and South Atlantic Quarterly, among others. Cepeda’s commentary has also been featured in various US media outlets including National Public Radio, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles.*