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Cristina VisperasCristina Visperas

Email Address: mvisperas@ucsd.edu

Education

  • B.S. Biotechnology, University of California, Davis
  • M.A. Communication, San Diego State University

Research Interests

My research interests include gendered medical spaces and the role of sexuopharmaceuticals and direct-to-consumer advertisements in contemporary discourses on and practices of gender and sexuality. More recently, I have become interested in the physics and politics of global digital networks. My meditations on the latter borrow from Afro-pessimist thought.

Work

  • "Material Life and Social Death: Countenancing Black Object-hood through Politics of Matter?" Paper presented 2012 at "What's New About New Materialism?" Conference, UC Berkeley.
  • "The Return of Racial Antagonisms in White Liberal Cinema: Afro-pessimism and a Critique of District 9." Paper presented at the 2012 Western States Communication Association Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
  • "Sexual Pathology and Assimilation Frames in DTC Advertisements on Erectile Dysfunction." Presented at the 2011 California State University Student Research Competition, Fresno, California.
  • "Performative Frames of Sexual Pathology and Assimilation: An Analysis of Direct-to-Consumer Advertisements on Erectile Dysfunction." Recipient of the President's Award at the San Diego State University 2011 Student Research Symposium, San Diego, California.