Susana Kaiser teaches at the Media Studies Department and the
Latin American Studies program. She earned her Ph.D. from the
Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at
Austin, her M.A. from the Department of Communication at Hunter
College of the City University of New York, and her B.A. in
Advertising from the Jesuit University of El Salvador, in Buenos
Aires, Argentina, her country of origin. Before coming to USF she
was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California,
Berkeley. Her research focuses on communication, cultural/political
memory, and human rights. Kaiser has written about the
communication strategies developed by the Mothers and the children
of the disappeared. Her book Postmemories of Terror: A New
Generation Deals with the Legacy of the Dirty War (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2005), based on oral histories with young Argentineans,
explores the younger generation's memories of the military
dictatorship(1976-83), including their interface with media
representations of this period. Other publications in this area
are: "To Punish or to Forgive? Young Citizens' Attitudes
on Impunity and Accountability in Contemporary Argentina," Journal
of Human Rights. Volume 4, Number 2, April-June 2005. "Escraches:
demonstrations, communication and political memory in
post-dictatorial Argentina," Media, Culture and Society, Vol. 24(4)
June 2002. Her teaching interests include the multiple links of the
media with political, civil, cultural, social, and economic rights,
race and ethnicity, Latin American and Latin history and media.
Some of the courses that she teaches are: Race, Ethnicity and
Media, Latin American Cinema, Latins in the U.S. Media, Human
Rights and Film, Latin American Perspectives.
