Manuel Aviles-Santiago

Recently Published Books

1. Spanish-Language Television: Cultural and Industrial Transformations. (University of Texas Press 2025). 
2. Puerto Rican Soldiers and Second-Class citizenship: Representations in Media. (Palgrave 2014)

Recently Published Journal Articles

1. From Sugar Fields to Rice Fields: An Oral History of Puerto Ricans From the Vietnam War Generation.  (2024 in Journal of Veteran Studies).
2. Ponlo To' Junto: Humor and Language Among Puerto Rican TikTok Content Producers. (2024 in Journal of Latin America Communication Research).
3. A Puño y Lentejuela: La Transfiguración Cultural del Macho Camacho (2020 in Journal of Latin American Communication Research).
4. “This is it!” [Is it?]: The Marketing of Nostalgia on Netflix´s One Day at a Time (2019 in Journal of Latin American Communication Research). 
5. Latina/os in Media" Representation, production, and consumption (2019 in Oxford Research). 
6. “Targeting Billennials”: Billenials, Linguistic Flexibility, and the New Language Politics of Univision (2019 in Communication, Culture, and Critique). 
7. Digital Pulse: Looking at the Collective/Cultural Memorialization of the Puerto Rican Victims of the Terrorist Attack in Orlando (2018 in Journal of Latin American Communication Research). 
8. Mapping Beauty, Fashion, and Femininity: Recent Contributions by Blain Roberts, Marcia Ochoa, and Vanita Reddy (2018, in Women's Studies Quarterly).
9. Colonial Bodies at the Media Universal Stage: The Case of Puerto Rico’s  Participation in Miss Universe (2016, in Journal of Latin American Communication Research).
10. La Banda: Marketing Confusion, Cultural Hybridity, and Nostalgia (2015, in Flow).
11. How to Save a Beauty Pageant: The Memeticization of Miss Universe 2015 (2015, in Flow). 
12. No Puppet's Land: The Role of Social Media in Puerto Rico's Mainstream Television (2015, in Journal of Latin American Communication Research).
13. Nuestra Belleza Latina and Why Pageants Are Still a Thing Among Latino Audiences (2015, in Flow). 
14. The Technological Embodiment of Colonialism in Puerto Rico (2014, in Anthurium Caribbean Studies Journal). 

Book Chapters

1. Avilés-Santiago, M.G. (Forthcoming). Anchoring Latinidad. In The Routledge Companion to Latino/a/x Journalism. Routledge.
2. Avilés-Santiago, M.G. & Mendez, D. (2025). The Sonic Borderlands: Crime, Music, and Latinx Podcasting. In Translating Spanglish in US Latinx Audiovisual Stories. Routledge. 
3. Avilés-Santiago, M.G. & Mendez, D. (2023). Latin History for Morons: Comedic Revisions and Race in the Work of John Leguizamo. In Race, Representation and Satire. Rowan & Littlefield.
4. Avilés-Santiago, M.G. (2022). “PeroLike”: Digitizing Bilingualism Among Billenials in Social Media Platforms. In Communicative Spaces in Bilingual Contexts: Discourses, Synergies and Counterflows in Spanish and English. Routledge.
5. Avilés-Santiago, M.G. (2017). Militarism. In LaFountain-Stokes, L., & Vargas, D. (Eds.), Key Terms in Latino Studies. NYU Press.
6. Avilés-Santiago, M.G. (2017). War! What is it good for? Absolutely Nothing: Testimonios sobre la Guerra de Vietnam. In S. Álvarez-Curbelo & M. Alvarado (Eds.), Tiempos Binarios: la Guerra Fría y Puerto Rico. Editorial Callejón.

Annotated Bibliographies

1. Baez, J., & Avilés-Santiago, M. (2016). Spanish-Language Television. Oxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies. doi: 10.1093/obo/9780199791286-0209 Available here.

Book Reviews

1. Review of the book Caribes 2.0: New Media, Globalization, and the Afterlives of Disaster (2024) by Jossianna Arro-Martinez. Centro Journal. [Forthcoming]. Center for Puerto Rican Studies.
2. Review of the book Early Puerto Rican Cinema and Nation Building: National Sentiments, Transnational Realities, 1897-1940 by Naida García-Crespo. (2021). Centro Journal. Pp. 9-11. Center for Puerto Rican Studies. New York.
3. Review of the book Reel Latinxs: Representation in U.S. Film & TV by Frederick L.  Aldama and Christopher González in The Journal of Arizona History. (2020). University of Arizona Press.
4. Review of the book Escenas Transcaribeñas: Ensayos sobre teatro, performance y cultura. Emisférica. Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. (2019). New York University. Retrieved from: http://beta.hemisphericinstitute.org/en/emisferica-14-1-expulsion/243-1…
5. Review of the book Gendered Geographies in Puerto Rican Culture: Space, Sexualities, and Solidarities by Radost Ranglova in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures. (2019). University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved from: http://doi-org.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/10.1080/00397709.2018.1527494