Raquel Moreira Presents at NCA Annual Conference

Graceland University Assistant Professor of Communication Raquel Moreira, PhD, presented at the National Communication Association (NCA) Annual Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 8-12. She presented the paper “Abject Victims: Twin Peaks: The Return and Monstrous (White) Femininity,” in the paper session “I’ll See You Again in 25 Years: Playing With the (Im)Possibilities of Twin Peaks: The Return,” sponsored by the Critical and Cultural Studies Division.

Moreira also participated in the following panels: “Performing Academic Labor Precarity: Working Class to Class and Paycheck to Paycheck,” a panel Moreira co-wrote with Dr. Leslie Rossman and that was featured in NCA’s new interdisciplinary initiative, Collaboratories; “Glass Ceilings at Play: International Faculty Theorizing Connections among Globalization, Competition, and Meritocracy in the U.S. Academy,” a roundtable with scholars from several prestigious institutions sponsored by the Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division; “Vamos a Jugar: Mentorship and Social Bonding for the Latina/o/x Studies Division and La Raza Caucus,” a mentorship session with Latinx scholars of all rankings sponsored by the La Raza Caucus; and “Music, Play, and Vernacular Force,” a panel exploring music from marginalized communities sponsored by the Critical and Cultural Studies Division.

Moreira chaired the paper session, “Layers of Latina/o/x Identities in Decolonial, Immigration, and Racialization Contexts,” sponsored by the La Raza Caucus, and she was elected Parliamentarian of the Latina/o Communication Studies Division and La Raza Caucus.