Juan Llamas-Rodriguez
@llamasjr.bsky.social
global media professor
author of Border Tunnels https://tinyurl.com/tnnls and Y Tu Mamá También https://tinyurl.com/ytmt01
español incluído.
author of Border Tunnels https://tinyurl.com/tnnls and Y Tu Mamá También https://tinyurl.com/ytmt01
español incluído.
An actual screenshot from the movie:
September 15, 2025 at 3:07 AM
An actual screenshot from the movie:
First day of my new grad seminar, MEDIA IN CRISIS!
Undoubtedly, at some point in the semester, we may have to skip the scheduled materials + address something awful in current events. But for now, I look forward to intellectually rich discussions about crisis’ relation to time, history, and media.
Undoubtedly, at some point in the semester, we may have to skip the scheduled materials + address something awful in current events. But for now, I look forward to intellectually rich discussions about crisis’ relation to time, history, and media.
August 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
First day of my new grad seminar, MEDIA IN CRISIS!
Undoubtedly, at some point in the semester, we may have to skip the scheduled materials + address something awful in current events. But for now, I look forward to intellectually rich discussions about crisis’ relation to time, history, and media.
Undoubtedly, at some point in the semester, we may have to skip the scheduled materials + address something awful in current events. But for now, I look forward to intellectually rich discussions about crisis’ relation to time, history, and media.
Love these! Speaking of fun things from grad school, look at what I recently found in a pile of old clothes (not a suggestive pic but I just labeled it that for the surprise element):
July 31, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Love these! Speaking of fun things from grad school, look at what I recently found in a pile of old clothes (not a suggestive pic but I just labeled it that for the surprise element):
Join us in Philadelphia on Sunday, August 3, 6-7:30pm for the opening of "NON-ALIGNED VISIONS," a multimedia installation of artistic explorations of transnational solidarities from 1960-70s. Presented by @annenbergcargc.bsky.social
📍Public Trust, 4017 Walnut St.
www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
📍Public Trust, 4017 Walnut St.
www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
July 30, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Join us in Philadelphia on Sunday, August 3, 6-7:30pm for the opening of "NON-ALIGNED VISIONS," a multimedia installation of artistic explorations of transnational solidarities from 1960-70s. Presented by @annenbergcargc.bsky.social
📍Public Trust, 4017 Walnut St.
www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
📍Public Trust, 4017 Walnut St.
www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
New episodes of the @annenbergcargc.bsky.social Global Media and Communication podcast out this month featuring research from two brilliant Mexican scholars!
April 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
New episodes of the @annenbergcargc.bsky.social Global Media and Communication podcast out this month featuring research from two brilliant Mexican scholars!
I stopped by the @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social booth at @scmstudies.bsky.social to get a picture with my book on Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN and was thrilled to hear from editor Jonathan Crago that it was “the most fondled book” on the table.
#SCMS25
#SCMS25
April 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I stopped by the @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social booth at @scmstudies.bsky.social to get a picture with my book on Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN and was thrilled to hear from editor Jonathan Crago that it was “the most fondled book” on the table.
#SCMS25
#SCMS25
I’m still reeling from an incredible night of cinema and culture!
Thank you to everyone who joined us last Wednesday at @phillyfilmsociety.bsky.social for the ✨sold out ✨community screening of Y Tu Mamá También and post-screening discussion about my book on the film.
www.mqup.ca/y-tu-mam---t...
Thank you to everyone who joined us last Wednesday at @phillyfilmsociety.bsky.social for the ✨sold out ✨community screening of Y Tu Mamá También and post-screening discussion about my book on the film.
www.mqup.ca/y-tu-mam---t...
March 31, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I’m still reeling from an incredible night of cinema and culture!
Thank you to everyone who joined us last Wednesday at @phillyfilmsociety.bsky.social for the ✨sold out ✨community screening of Y Tu Mamá También and post-screening discussion about my book on the film.
www.mqup.ca/y-tu-mam---t...
Thank you to everyone who joined us last Wednesday at @phillyfilmsociety.bsky.social for the ✨sold out ✨community screening of Y Tu Mamá También and post-screening discussion about my book on the film.
www.mqup.ca/y-tu-mam---t...
Caffeinated and ready to “diffract” the “critical” at #STSHub2025!
March 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Caffeinated and ready to “diffract” the “critical” at #STSHub2025!
David Lynch talking about Philadelphia at a Q&A in Bryn Mawr in 2014:
January 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
David Lynch talking about Philadelphia at a Q&A in Bryn Mawr in 2014:
First day of classes for my Latin American TV course! As an icebreaker activity, I made a template for all students to create their own fake “TV Guide” cover:
January 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
First day of classes for my Latin American TV course! As an icebreaker activity, I made a template for all students to create their own fake “TV Guide” cover:
It was the @annenbergcargc.bsky.social holiday gift exchange party today and look at the amazing retro gift I got!
December 6, 2024 at 2:58 AM
It was the @annenbergcargc.bsky.social holiday gift exchange party today and look at the amazing retro gift I got!
Check out the latest issue of #Flow, which includes essays on finance in film, stream-pop, and wigs!
I wrote about the stakes of coping with increasingly more extreme weather through the interface of our phones:
www.flowjournal.org/2024/11/extr...
I wrote about the stakes of coping with increasingly more extreme weather through the interface of our phones:
www.flowjournal.org/2024/11/extr...
November 15, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Check out the latest issue of #Flow, which includes essays on finance in film, stream-pop, and wigs!
I wrote about the stakes of coping with increasingly more extreme weather through the interface of our phones:
www.flowjournal.org/2024/11/extr...
I wrote about the stakes of coping with increasingly more extreme weather through the interface of our phones:
www.flowjournal.org/2024/11/extr...
If you’re at #ASA2024, come join us in our two-panel sequence on “Infrastructures of the US-Mexico Border” this morning!
I’ll be presenting on games that seek to simulate the process of applying for immigration status:
I’ll be presenting on games that seek to simulate the process of applying for immigration status:
November 14, 2024 at 1:46 PM
If you’re at #ASA2024, come join us in our two-panel sequence on “Infrastructures of the US-Mexico Border” this morning!
I’ll be presenting on games that seek to simulate the process of applying for immigration status:
I’ll be presenting on games that seek to simulate the process of applying for immigration status:
My article on #whitexicans argues for the usefulness of social media slang and memes in developing vernacular vocabularies to talk about race and racialization within cultural contexts beyond the Anglophone internet:
doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...
doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...
November 11, 2024 at 7:18 PM
My article on #whitexicans argues for the usefulness of social media slang and memes in developing vernacular vocabularies to talk about race and racialization within cultural contexts beyond the Anglophone internet:
doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...
doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...
My article on the end of ONE DAY AT A TIME grapples with the ways fiction television series can (and cannot) address unfolding political crises and with the insufficiency of “Latinx” as a descriptor for the identity + social context of characters and audiences:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 11, 2024 at 7:15 PM
My article on the end of ONE DAY AT A TIME grapples with the ways fiction television series can (and cannot) address unfolding political crises and with the insufficiency of “Latinx” as a descriptor for the identity + social context of characters and audiences:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Looking forward to talking with Hector Amaya about my book #BorderTunnels in this virtual colloquium hosted by the Latinx Caucus of the Society for Cinema & Media Studies!
Friday November 8th at 10:00 am Pacific/ 1:00 pm Eastern.
Register here: utexas.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Friday November 8th at 10:00 am Pacific/ 1:00 pm Eastern.
Register here: utexas.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 28, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Looking forward to talking with Hector Amaya about my book #BorderTunnels in this virtual colloquium hosted by the Latinx Caucus of the Society for Cinema & Media Studies!
Friday November 8th at 10:00 am Pacific/ 1:00 pm Eastern.
Register here: utexas.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Friday November 8th at 10:00 am Pacific/ 1:00 pm Eastern.
Register here: utexas.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Movies I watched at the Philadelphia Film Festival, Day One:
October 20, 2024 at 2:25 AM
Movies I watched at the Philadelphia Film Festival, Day One:
First week of classes and I already decided to create a paper-prototype trading card game🃏for students to introduce themselves in my Games and Globalization course…
Anyway, it worked like a charm!
Anyway, it worked like a charm!
August 29, 2024 at 12:16 AM
First week of classes and I already decided to create a paper-prototype trading card game🃏for students to introduce themselves in my Games and Globalization course…
Anyway, it worked like a charm!
Anyway, it worked like a charm!
The PDF proofs for MEDIA TRAVELS: TOWARD AN ATLAS OF GLOBAL MEDIA are here, which means it’s time for a ToC reveal! 🌟
The collection’s landing page is also live at the Amherst College Press site:
doi.org/10.3998/mpub...
Excited for these chapters to be out in the world in a few months!
The collection’s landing page is also live at the Amherst College Press site:
doi.org/10.3998/mpub...
Excited for these chapters to be out in the world in a few months!
August 20, 2024 at 1:21 PM
The PDF proofs for MEDIA TRAVELS: TOWARD AN ATLAS OF GLOBAL MEDIA are here, which means it’s time for a ToC reveal! 🌟
The collection’s landing page is also live at the Amherst College Press site:
doi.org/10.3998/mpub...
Excited for these chapters to be out in the world in a few months!
The collection’s landing page is also live at the Amherst College Press site:
doi.org/10.3998/mpub...
Excited for these chapters to be out in the world in a few months!
🌟Cover Reveal🌟
Our open access multimodal edited collection MEDIA TRAVELS: TOWARD AN ATLAS OF GLOBAL MEDIA officially has a book cover.
Excited for readers to encounter these 11 chapters by 12 brilliant scholars!
Coming March 2025 to a bookstore (and a computer) near you…
Our open access multimodal edited collection MEDIA TRAVELS: TOWARD AN ATLAS OF GLOBAL MEDIA officially has a book cover.
Excited for readers to encounter these 11 chapters by 12 brilliant scholars!
Coming March 2025 to a bookstore (and a computer) near you…
June 14, 2024 at 7:58 PM
🌟Cover Reveal🌟
Our open access multimodal edited collection MEDIA TRAVELS: TOWARD AN ATLAS OF GLOBAL MEDIA officially has a book cover.
Excited for readers to encounter these 11 chapters by 12 brilliant scholars!
Coming March 2025 to a bookstore (and a computer) near you…
Our open access multimodal edited collection MEDIA TRAVELS: TOWARD AN ATLAS OF GLOBAL MEDIA officially has a book cover.
Excited for readers to encounter these 11 chapters by 12 brilliant scholars!
Coming March 2025 to a bookstore (and a computer) near you…
The Y Tu Mamá También manuscript has been received by McGill-Queen’s U Press and it’s officially moving into production!
Excited to see it in print in ~7-8 months 😂
*collapses into a weekend-long nap*
Excited to see it in print in ~7-8 months 😂
*collapses into a weekend-long nap*
May 31, 2024 at 7:49 PM
The Y Tu Mamá También manuscript has been received by McGill-Queen’s U Press and it’s officially moving into production!
Excited to see it in print in ~7-8 months 😂
*collapses into a weekend-long nap*
Excited to see it in print in ~7-8 months 😂
*collapses into a weekend-long nap*