Myra Washington

Affiliate

Jan 1

Assistant Vice President for Faculty
Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

Myra Washington is an Assistant Vice President for Faculty and an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah. Her interest revolves around how media can help create and sustain ideas about our identities, our relationships with each other, various institutions, and the way we live—so she will never run out of things to analyze! Washington's research topics range from representations in media to sports, digital media technologies, and the rhetoric of racially mixed individuals.

Her research is situated in the areas of cultural studies, critical media and digital media studies, and comparative ethnic studies (with a focus on African American and Asian American studies), as well as critical rhetorical studies, gender and sexuality studies, and the emerging field of critical mixed-race studies. The critical focus of her research means she is always examining how power influences or obscures our understanding of meta-narratives of identity, such as race, gender, class, sexuality, and nationhood. Washington focuses on mediated representations because she is interested in contextualizing the moments that shape these representations as they emerge and, in turn, how those representations shape our understandings of one another.