Alexis Romero Walker, Ph.D.

This job market has been truly horrendous. Any advice for looking for Altac jobs friends? I live in NYC. I quit my full time TT job in Jan because it wasn’t sustainable — especially salary. Would love advice for what kind of jobs to apply to? People to connect with? Plz & thanks!

Our anthology is out ah! It’s my 1st book! Check it out yayyyy!

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Celebrating Women While Degrading the Trans Community is Not Celebrating Women Just let kids play sports

You all know this stuff but I still wrote this up because I’m TIRED.

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Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off

Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.

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#Medialiteracy is more crucial than ever, so I've created a starter pack of Bluesky accounts who teach & research on the issue. Feel free to suggest adds.

@insightersed.bsky.social, @mikecaulfield.bsky.social, @alexisromwalker.bsky.social, & @newslitproject.bsky.social, who have I missed?

The Institute for Research on Women Presents: Rejoinder A Call for Proposals "The Archival is Political" Guest Editor: Alexandra Southgate This issue of Rejoinder addresses the power and politics of the archive as an object of fascination for #feminist/#queer #scholars and #activists. Visit https://irw.rutgers.edu/about-rejoinder for more info!

CFP The deadline has been extended to January 5th! Please consider submitting to my collection on feminist/queer archival practice! 🗃️📜📚

My article “Digital Discussions among Women Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints” has finally been published! Doing this research and writing this article broke me in a lot of ways, and I’m really proud of myself for finishing it.

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Super proud of this report, cited today by Forbes. Check it out! seejane.org/research-inf...

It was so nice to go to a conference this weekend and not feel like I needed to perform on Twitter. Academic Twitter was so exhausting.

My book Review of Benjamin Thevenin’s “Making media matter” is out!
Review: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Book (open access): www.routledge.com/Making-Media...

In doing so, I found students were able to more consistently think outside of socially constructed norms for the remainder of the course. Students also accomplished the gaining of additional media literacy skills of empathy, inclusivity, & bodily orientation.

I specifically use the monster films to begin the course with an alternative perspective. Rather than beginning the class with an established norm, perpetuating “otherness,” I use monster films to help students think outside of heteronormative perspectives of whiteness.

🚨New Pub🚨 My article “Performance & orientation in the media higher education classroom” is now available! Here I explore the use of monster films in the higher Ed media literacy classroom. doi.org/10.1080/2574...

My paper has been accepted after revisions! Thank goodness finally 😭🙏🏽

Good friend & I are editing a book! Consider submitting an abstract! Deadline: October 1st. More info & submission site: forms.gle/J2w1UFbPN6Wh...

Hi! I’m the teaching chair! Plz consider being a part of this program!

MED is seeking participants for its annual multi-tiered mentorship program that links sr faculty, jr faculty, and grad students within media ethics.

If interested, fill out this form by Oct. 16: forms.gle/uDeEJde7CsMH...

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When applying for academic jobs, is it appropriate to reach out to people there to network? The academic job market is still such a mystery to me. Also if any mutuals are at Fordham Comm & Media I’d love to talk!

UNC Chapel Hill went into lockdown for the 2nd time in 16 days bc someone brandished a weapon at the student union. This is not normal. We need to say this and remember this. THIS. IS. NOT. NORMAL. And what both lockdowns have in common are the guns. We need to get rid of the guns.

Oh god, “major revisions” 😭 At least it’s something.

Finally got my review back as an R&R 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

The photo descriptions are so good omg.

Stressed about how long journals are taking to get back to me 😓 Third year review comes up soon & I’d love to have a little more to share but it’s already been 4+ months with one journal. I finally got copyedits for one accepted nearly a year ago. 😭

The cover today for UNC’s The Daily Tarheel

I submitted a grant application for the first time! I expect I won’t get it as I have 0 experience with grant work & never had any guidance on this in my education, but I’m hoping for good feedback that will help me for next time.

Allergy test, blood work, pediatrist for possible custom insoles, dermatologist for annual skin graphing, physical therapy if there’s anything it would be helpful for!

I was a grad student at UNC & taught during my time there. I often teach morning classes & the thought of being someone in a classroom w/ a class of undergraduates during their 2nd week of classes, sheltering in place? It’s truly nightmarish.

Last night I puked because my ovarian cysts hurt so bad & it’s truly unbelievable that I’m just supposed to live with this.