Hampshire College

Susana Loza, assistant professor of media culture, received B.A. degrees in Political Science and Psychology from Stanford University, and her Ph.D. in Comparative Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. Her dissertation, "Global Rhetoric, Transnational Markets: The (Post)Modern Trajectories of Electronic Dance Music," examines the racial, gender, socioeconomic, and philosophical dimensions of digital pop music.

Her scholarly publications include articles on Orientalism and film noir, techno music and sonic communities, and the sexual politics of digital sampling.

Professor Loza is currently working on a project entitled "Othering the Beat: Electronic Dance Music, Cultural Appropriation, and the Construction of Self" that investigates the sampling of culture in the white male-dominated realm of digital pop.

Affiliations
School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies

Recent Courses
The (Post)Racial State: Ideology, Politics, and the Media (Spring 2010)
The Politics of Popular Culture (Spring 2010)
Circuits of Power: Music, Race, and Theory (Fall 2009)
Alien/Freak/Monster: Race, Sex, and Otherness in Sci-Fi and Horror (Fall 2009)