Graduate College Fellow
Biography
Breanna Escamilla is a fifth year PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She earned her B.A in Anthropology with a double minor in African American and African Studies and Chicanx/Latinx Studies at Michigan State University in 2018.
Her current research interest seeks to understand the ways in which queer latinas utilize social media spaces for purposes of self-making and cultural production. She is also pursuing graduate minors in Latino/a/x Studies and Queer Studies from the Department of Latino/a Studies and Gender and Women's Studies.
Research Interests
Women of Color Feminisms, Gender/Sexuality, Race/Ethnicity, Digital Ethnography, Ethics, Media and Culture, Chicanx/Latinx Studies, and Popular Culture
