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Janelle Malagon
- Teaching Assistant - Doctoral, English
Education
- MA in English, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2019
- BA in English with a minor in History, University of Central Florida, 2017
Courses Taught
- ENGLISH 102 - College Writing and Research
- ETHNIC 275 - Queer Migrations
- LGBT 275 - Queer Migrations
- LGBT 599 - Selected Topics in LGBT Studies
- WRIT 1120 - College Writing (UMD)
Research Interests
- The intersections of media studies and global climate disruptions
- Game studies, environmental games, representations of climate disruptions in interactive media
- Transnational and transgenerational media, diaspora studies, antiracist practices and pedagogy
Conference Presentations
- “‘You Mean, You’re Not Going to Read Them?:’ The Barrier-Breaking Value of Private Journals in the Public FYC Classroom” presented at the 2020 Red River Graduate Student Conference.
- “Situated Affect: An Incomplete Reading of Mirror Neurons in (e)Sports” presented at the 2020 Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference.
- “Cyborgs are the 21st century Frankenstein's Monster: Adaptation as a Means of Re/Visioning Dickensian Monsters as Postmodern Cyborgs" accepted for the College English Association 2020 Conference.
- “Bridging the Real-ized and Imagined Cuba in the American Imagination: Investigating the Reader’s Role in Cristina García’s Dreaming in Cuban" presented at the College English Association 2018 Conference.