ICR Authors' Book Launch & Conversation: “Quinceañeras”
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Celebrate the launch of “Quinceañeras: Latinidades and Girlhood in Popular Culture” (University of Illinois Press), co-edited by two alumni and an emerita professor from the Institute of Communications Research.
Jillian M. Báez (PhD ’09, communications and media, ICR), Diana Leon-Boys (PhD ’20, communications and media, ICR), and Institute of Communications Research Professor Emerita Angharad N. Valdivia (PhD ’91, communications and media, ICR) edited a collection that draws on the expanding field of girlhood studies to examine the increasing visibility of the event and the figure of the quinceañera herself in pop culture.
The event will include conversation with Báez, Leon-Boys, and Valdivia, including time for Q&A. Professor Isabel-Molina Guzmán, who has an appointment with the Institute of Communications Research, will be moderating.
Valdivia was part of an ICR team that also organized a Spurlock Museum exhibit on quinceañeras in 2022, with current ICR doctoral student Stephanie Pérez and alum Ariana Cano (PhD ’24, communications and media, ICR), who were also book contributors.
Books will be available at this event for purchase and signing.