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Bio
Bio
Maga Miranda (she/they) is a Chau Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and an interdisciplinary scholar in Chicana/o-Latina/o studies. Miranda is currently working on a book project, Intimate Data: Latina Workers and the Data-Driven Politics of Care, exploring how regimes of documentation, datafication and surveillance penetrate spaces long considered private such as homes, bodies and the relational domains of care, transforming them into objects of knowledge and administrative power. Miranda is interested in critical media and internet studies.
Their writing has appeared in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, International Journal of Communication and Critical Ethnic Studies. They have also contributed to The Nation, Truthout, Verso and New Left Review. Miranda currently serves on the editorial board of Spectre Journal.
Miranda is deeply committed to public humanities work that bridges scholarly research and community-based knowledge through collaborative media practices including zines, podcasts and social media as tools for critical inquiry, creative expression and public engagement.