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Amaru Tejeda
Amaru Tejeda is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research areas include Latinx media, environmental media and critical infrastructure studies, with a focus on issues of environmental injustice and their media entanglements. His dissertation examines the relationship between media, energy and culture, with a particular focus on the history of battery technology and mobile media, tracing the battery’s role in shaping cultures of mobility from the early twentieth century into the age of lithium. Amaru is an instructor at Loyola Marymount University, where he teaches courses on film history, social media and the art of music video. He is also a member of the Media Fields Journal Editorial Collective and the co-editor of Media Fields Journal, Issue 16, Special Issue: ‘Life Cycles’.
Contact: Department of Film and Media Studies, 2433 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building (SSMS), UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4010, USA.