Rodolfo Fernández

My alma mater is hiring!

Assistant Dean for Innovation in Expression Management and Acquiescence Enforcement

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with a PhD from @uconnhistory.bsky.social. our alums do great things!

FAQs for This Weekend’s Bad Bunny Concert Featuring Football What time is kickoff? The Bad Bunny concert kicks off around 8:00 or 8:30 p.m., but there will be pre-concert entertainment starting at 6:30 p.m. f...

Q: Why will football be featured during the Bad Bunny concert?*

A: The Bad Bunny concert is fantastic exposure for the NFL and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to put the game of American football in front of fans of the biggest musical artist in the world.

El Instituto co-sponsor: The Hartford Deportation Defense and the University of Connecticut invite the Hartford community to a public event focused on the impact of immigration enforcement on our communities , December 6, 2025 from 9:30am-1:00pm flyer.

Join us as we are co-sponsoring this event: The Hartford Deportation Defense and the University of Connecticut invite the Hartford community to a public event focused on the impact of immigration enforcement on our communities! 😊

#Elin #UConn #Culture #Inclusion #Diversity

Two round loaves of bread with cross-cross design to signify the bones of the dead

Fresh from the oven, sans skulls #DiaDeMuertos

A miniature hand-made skeleton stands at a table that has a TV screen, a speaker, and another device.

Finally, my favorite, of course—the calavera #TV broadcaster. Gotta put this on the front page of my TV and Death syllabus next year. #DiaDeMuertos

A small black wooden box sits open to show a pair of skeletons dressed in their wedding clothes. The black lid has white cross drawn on it, along with the words Amor Eterno (eternal love) and a hand-drawn wreath with pink flowers. To the left is a pile of orange marigolds.

Also from central Mexico, this is a particular favorite. Amor Eterno/Eternal Love. #DiaDeMuertos

A small white wooden coffin with a black cross on top. A square window shows the skull of a skeleton that lays inside.

A black coffin with an opening that shows the skull with a skeleton j side. Below it is an open toepincher coffin with a skeleton wearing a white dress.

These guys are from central Mexico and have been with us the longest—over 20 years. The fellow on the right is attached to a string that used to flip open a lid and let him pop up. Alas, the lid broke, and the string gave out. But he’s still a looker. #DiaDeMuertos

A small black ceramic skull sits surrounded by orange marigolds.

This beautiful skull is from a trip to San Bartolo Coyotepec in Oaxaca.

Two Catrina figurines made from corn husks. Their husk dresses are different shades of pink with white and iridescent horizontal stripes at the bottom. Their bags have yellow and green feathers. One carries a tray of marigolds.

These Catrinas were a gift from a group of indigenous women from Tlaxcala who visited @uconnelinstituto.bsky.social last year. #DiaDeMuertos

A Frida Kahlo doll wearing a red reboso and flowers in her hair is surrounded by orange marigolds.

La Frida was added by another faculty member. We love her because she looks like she’s not to be messed with. #DiaDeMuertos

A demon cameraman shoots a skeleton dressed in white laying in an open casket.

A play on post-mortem photography. Got this little demon cameraman in Guanajuato, I believe. #DiaDeMuertos

A miniature funeral scene. A pink coffin with purple flowers and a black cross is surrounded by small skeletal mourners in multicolored clothes.

This lovely funeral scene is one of my favorites. (A gift from my husband.)

A brown clay skull with a green hat and blue and pink markings sits atop a box and is surrounded by orange marigolds.

This lady lost her body in one of our many moves, but we were thankful to keep her head and amazing hat intact.

A black and white Catrina figurine made from corn husk. An orange marigold and a figurine of Christ on a cross are on either side of her.

A Catrina made from corn husks brings a touch of glamour.

Between two blue couches is an assortment of fake skulls and skeletons, orange marigolds, and red and black papel picado. Two Catrina figurines made of straw stand atop a stone niche and are flanked by marigolds.

Every October for the past few years, I have helped my husband build an ofrenda at UCONN's @uconnelinstituto.bsky.social for Día de Muertos in November. We grab a corner of the common area & fill it with artifacts we've collected for the 20 or so years. Here's a peek at a few of our altar dwellers.

Two glasses of a pinkish-purple martini made with Kalamata olive brine. The glasses sit atop a marble bar.

Dirty Kalamata Martini
Hartford Flavor Company
Happy Halloween! 🎃
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I wrote about this years ago, so it's a topic near-and-dear to my TV scholar heart. This is as much a media history story as it is a drug story. This NPR story is quite brief, so I'm interrupting grading to offer a timeline of how shit got so bad. (This does not qualify as procrastination.) 🧵 (1/10)

Honoring Hispanic Month flyer featuring Gabriela Mistral (headshot included).

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"The suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel felt more like an omen." @tvbookstvbooks.bsky.social on censorship, the FCC, and the television industry over time. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/indecent-disposal-fcc-and-the-censoring-of-late-night/

I had fun revisiting angry viewer letters & FCC speeches to write this piece. The brief but consequential run-up to the 1952 TV Code has a lot to offer as we reflect on the Colbert and Kimmel debacles. (Also, a Morel Orel mention.) Thanks to @sayanniething.bsky.social & @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social!

A rogue Highland Coo is amazing enough, but a rogue MINIATURE Highland Coo warrants a state holiday at the very least. Someone please write a ballad about Lefty. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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His guilty feet had got no rythm.

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Journal of e-Media Studies, Volume 7 Issue 2: Accessible Civil Rights Heritage: Mexicans in Your Town: Histories of Mexican Migration to the United States in Local Television Documentaries by Rodolfo Fernández and Deborah L. JaramilloUniversity of Connecticut (Fernández) / Boston University (Jaramillo)AbstractMigrants and LocalsA Brief Overview of Mexican Migration to the United States&...

On local television, public broadcasting, and responses to Mexican immigration: @rodolfofernandez.bsky.social and I wrote about how locally produced documentaries tackled their communities' anxieties about the "sudden" appearance of Mexicans in their towns. pub.dartmouth.edu/journal-of-e...

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With thanks to the American Archive of Public Broadcasting americanarchive.org and the Bay Area Television Archive batv.quartexcollections.com!

Most Black Mirror episodes could have been an email.

This whole National Archives communication fuck-up was just about the worst thing to send out to a community already staring into the abyss.

We’re hours away from fighter jets turning into eagles.