Juan Llamas-Rodriguez is assistant professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and associate director of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Border Tunnels: A Media Theory of the US-Mexico Underground (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) and Y Tu Mamá También: A Queer Film Classic (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025), and editor of Media Travels: Toward an Atlas of Global Media (Amherst College Press, 2025). His work has appeared in the journals such as Social Text; Feminist Media Histories; Television & New Media; Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience; Communication, Culture, and Critique; and the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, as well as several edited collections.