Monica De La Torre
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Phone: 480-965-5120
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Mail code: 6303Campus: Tempe
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Monica De La Torre is Associate Professor in the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. De La Torre’s interdisciplinary research and teaching practices bridge Chicana feminist theory, Latinx feminist media studies, radio and sound studies, and women’s and gender studies. As a critical scholar and practitioner of digital media and radio, she analyzes both media content and production practices to push the analytic edge of scholarship foregrounding modalities of difference such as gender, race, class, and citizenship. A former community radio producer and member of the Los Angeles based radio collective Soul Rebel Radio, De La Torre's book, “Feminista Frequencies: Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley,” (University of Washington Press) details the powerful story of Chicana farm workers and activists turned community radio broadcasters beginning in the 1970s. https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295749662/feminista-frequencies/
Ph.D. Feminist Studies, University of Washington 2016
M.A. Chicana and Chicano Studies, California State University Northridge 2009
B.A. Psychology and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis 2005
Book
De La Torre, Monica. (2022). Feminista Frequencies: Community Building through Radio in the Yakima Valley, University of Washington Press, Decolonizing Feminisms Series. https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295749662/feminista-frequencies/
Peer-Reviewed Publications
De La Torre, Monica and Christine Marín. (2021). “Amazing Grace Keeps the Platters Spinning: A Photo Essay on Radio and Television Trailblazer Graciela Gil Olivarez” in Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal, Special Issue on “Latina Media Histories” (Guest Editors: Mary Beltran and Mirasol Enríquez) Volume 7, Number 4, pp. 107-135. https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2021.7.4.107
De La Torre, Monica. (2018). “Sonic Bridging: The Radio Preservation Task Force and Archiving Spanish-Language/Bilingual Radio in the United States” in Archiving as Activism Forum (Forum Co-Editors: Kathleen Battles and Nora Patterson) for New Review of Film and Television Studies, Volume 16.4.
De La Torre, Monica. (2018). “Feminista Frequencies: Chicana Radio Activism in the Pacific Northwest.” In ¡Chicana Movidas! Mapping Technologies of Resistance in the Moviemiento Era edited by Maylei Blackwell, María Eugenia Cotera, and Dionne Espinoza. Austin: University of Texas Press.
De La Torre, Monica. 2015. “Programas Sin Vergüenza (Shameless Programs): Mapping Chicanas in Community Radio in the 1970s.” Women’s Studies Quarterly WSQ: The 1970s Volume 43, Numbers 3&4.
Habell-Pallán, Michelle, Sonnet Retman, Angelica Macklin, and Monica De La Torre. (2018). “Women Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities (Convivencia and Archivista Praxis for a Digital Era).” In Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities edited by Jentery Sayers. London and New York: Routledge.
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 471 | Latinos In Hollywood |
TCL 471 | Latinos In Hollywood |
TCL 355 | Transborder Digital Media |
FMP 355 | Transborder Digital Media |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 471 | Latinos In Hollywood |
TCL 471 | Latinos In Hollywood |
TCL 294 | Special Topics |
WST 294 | Special Topics |
TCL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 471 | Latinos In Hollywood |
TCL 471 | Latinos In Hollywood |
TCL 355 | Transborder Digital Media |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 471 | Latinos In Hollywood |
TCL 471 | Latinos In Hollywood |
TCL 294 | Special Topics |
TCL 294 | Special Topics |
WST 294 | Special Topics |
WST 294 | Special Topics |
TSS 590 | Reading and Conference |
TSS 690 | Reading and Conference |
TCL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 394 | Special Topics |
TCL 394 | Special Topics |
WST 394 | Special Topics |
WST 394 | Special Topics |
TCL 471 | Latinos In Hollywood |
TCL 471 | Latinos In Hollywood |
SLC 394 | Special Topics |
SLC 394 | Special Topics |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 471 | Latinos In Hollywood |
TCL 471 | Latinos In Hollywood |
TCL 294 | Special Topics |
TCL 294 | Special Topics |
WST 294 | Special Topics |
WST 294 | Special Topics |
TCL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 471 | Latinos In Hollywood |
TCL 471 | Latinos In Hollywood |
TCL 294 | Special Topics |
SLC 294 | Special Topics |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 201 | Transborder Society&Culture I |
TCL 394 | Special Topics |
TCL 394 | Special Topics |
SLC 394 | Special Topics |
SLC 394 | Special Topics |
WST 394 | Special Topics |
WST 394 | Special Topics |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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TCL 471 | Latinos In Hollywood |
TCL 471 | Latinos In Hollywood |
TSS 590 | Reading and Conference |
Publications
Chicana/o Public Radio Un/Archived
Dolores Inés Casillas (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Monica De La Torre (Arizona State University)
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