Susana Loza

Susana Loza holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. She teaches ethnic studies, film and media studies, critical disability studies, popular culture studies, and feminist theory. Her research interests include the social construction of race and sex in speculative media; power, privilege, and cultural appropriation; gender and ethnic performativity in digital spaces; the politics of sampling and remixing; the colonial dimensions of gaming; and the promise and peril of social media for activism. Professor Loza’s recent publications include “Haunted by Settler Nostalgia: (Lat)Indigenous Specters, White Vampires, and the Historical Amnesia of Twilight,” (2024) and “Postracial Amnesia: Doctor Who in the Brexit Era” (2021). Her previous book, Speculative Imperialisms: Monstrosity and Masquerade in Postracial Times (2017), explores the resurgence of ethnic simulation in science fiction, horror, and fantasy in a putatively colorblind era. Her current project, Settler Gothic, excavates the colonial ideologies and gothic elements of contemporary US horror television and film.

COURSES TAUGHT

• History of Latinas/Latinos in the US, San Francisco State University, College of Ethnic Studies

• Race and Dis/Ability, San Francisco State University, College of Ethnic Studies

• Alien/Freak/Monster: Race, Sex, and Disability in Science Fiction, Horror, & Fantasy, Hampshire College

• Gaming the System: Race, Queerness, and the Politics of Play, Hampshire College

• Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Digital Age, Hampshire College

• Speculative Visions: From Afrofuturism to Steampunk, Hampshire College

• Settler Mythologies, Imperial Ideologies: Colonialism & Popular Culture, Hampshire College