EDUCATION  

B.A., The University of Arizona, 2014 

M.A., The University of Missouri, 2016 

Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 2020 

RESEARCH AND TEACHING FIELDS 

Communications Law and Ethics 

Communication in a Global Age 

Latina/o/x Media Studies 

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS 

National Communication Association (NCA) 

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) 

RESEARCH PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS: 

McAllister, M. P., & Galarza, L. (Forthcoming 2022). America in the advertising age. In Heffernan, N. (Ed.). Cambridge history of American popular culture. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 

Galarza, L. (Forthcoming October 2021).  Language, Telenovelas, and Citizenship: A Mexican immigrant’s exploration of first-generation American narratives in Jane The Virgin. In O. Banjo, (Ed.). Immigrant Generations, Media Representations, and Audiences. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030753108?fbclid=IwAR1Hj5-2CnCxx1R1YSC6XP1NGYWu4oCfBpLXP37usKhZ2LY6WOnCspfRnIg#reviews 

Galarza, L. & Rodriguez Burciaga, P. A. (Forthcoming October 2021). Un Puente a la Mesa: The role of cultural translators in the production of Disney/Pixar’s Coco. In O. Banjo, (Ed.). Immigrant Generations, Media Representations, and Audiences. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030753108?fbclid=IwAR1Hj5-2CnCxx1R1YSC6XP1NGYWu4oCfBpLXP37usKhZ2LY6WOnCspfRnIg#reviews  

Galarza, L., & Stoltzfus-Brown, L. (2021). 84 Lumber’s Constrained Polysemy: Limiting Interpretive Play and the Power of Audience Agency in Inspirational Immigrant Narratives. International Journal Of Communication, 15, 20. Retrieved from https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/12098/3308 

McAllister, M. P. & Galarza, L. (2020). Working-class bodies in advertising. In E. Polson, L. S. Clark, L. S., & R. Gajjala (Eds.). The Routledge companion to media and class (pp. 17-26). New York: Taylor & Francis/Routledge.