Laura-Zoë Humphreys
Assistant Professor - Communication
School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty
Region
- Caribbean
- General Latin America
Additional Info
Latin American-Related Courses Taught in Last 2 years:
Research
Media and the public sphere, media piracy, digital media, post/socialism, Cuban and Latin American cinema, critical social theory
Degrees
- B.A., Anthropology and Women’s Studies, McGill University, 2000
- M.A., Anthropology, University of Chicago, 2004
- Ph.D., Cinema and Media Studies and Anthropology, University of Chicago, 2012
Academic Experience
Academic Experience
- Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2017-
- Assistant Professor, University of Manitoba, 2014-2017
- Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Diaspora Studies, Johns Hopkins University, 2012-2014
Distinctions
- Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2007-2008
- Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC) Doctoral Award in Social Sciences, 2006-2007, 2004
- Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Doctoral Award in Social Sciences, 2004-2006
- Century Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2001-2005
Languages
- Spanish
- French
Overseas Experience
- Cuba
- Mexico
Selected Publications
- 2017. “Paranoid Readings and Ambivalent Allegories in Cuban Cinema,' Social Text 132 35.3: 17-40.
- 2012. “Symptomologies of the State: Cuba’s ‘Email War’ and the Paranoid Public Sphere.” Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion: Feelings, Affect and Technological Change. Editors, A. Kuntsman and A. Karatzogianni. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave
