SCILS, Rutgers University

Regina Marchi

Title:	Assistant Professor
Department:	Journalism and Media Studies

Contact Info

Office:	CIL-104
Phone:	732-932-7500 ext. 8160
Fax:	732-932-6916
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Office Hours:	M 2-3 pm and W 6-7 pm
Web:	rmarchi@rutgers.edu

Bio

Bio Text:

Regina Marchi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism & Media Studies at Rutgers University. She holds a Ph. D. in Communication from the University of California, San Diego, and an M.A. in English Literature from San Francisco State University.

Prior to life in academia, she worked as a journalist in the US and Central America and also spent several years doing community organizing work in the areas of health and environmental justice.

Dr. Marchi teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in the areas of social movements and the media; news analysis, grassroots media; Latino popular culture; portrayals of race, class, and gender in US media; and qualitative communication research methods. She is also an affiliated professor with the Rutgers Department of Latino Studies.

Fields of Study:	Race, class, gender & media; social movements & news; community media; Latino popular culture
Education:	Ph.D. in Communication, University of California San Diego M.A. in English Literature, San Francisco State University B.A. in English Literature & Rhetoric, Bates College
Research Interests:	Dr. Marchi's research examines the intersections of culture and politics. She is presently writing a book about Day of the Dead celebrations in the United States as vernacular media that communicate (via multi-media installations, altar exhibits, street processions, public rituals, poetry, and mainstream news coverage of all of the above) about U.S. Latino identity and collective political struggle. Other research interests include social movements and the news; community-based media (particularly low-power radio); teens and media; consumer culture; popular culture, and the political economy of the mass media.
Publications, Presentations, Projects of Interest:	Marchi, R. "Communities Against Runway Expansion: A case study of the impact of community organizing on news and politics," in Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, Vol. 6(4) 465-485, Sage Publications: November 2005. Marchi, R. "El Dia de los Muertos in the USA: Cultural Ritual as Political Communication," in Spontaneous Shrines and the Public Memorialization of Death, ed. Jack Santino: Palgrave, May 2006. Marchi, R. "Media, Ritual and a Quest for Connection," in Religion, Media and the Marketplace, Eds. Stewart Hoover and Lynn Schofield Clark: Rutgers University Press. Spring 2007. Marchi, R. Produced, filmed, edited and subtitled Border Stories, a half-hour documentary film about undocumented Guatemalans traveling by land to cross the US/Mexican Border (Media 100 digital video), copyright 2000. Marchi, R. Spanish to English translation of book, The Festival Day of Saint John of Mixtepec in Oaxaca, Mexico, Nahual Institute, February 2006.