Dr. Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero

Assistant Professor,
Department of Cinema &
Digital Media at UC Davis
Dr. KMSR's courses for 2025-2026:
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CDM 041A: History of Cinema from 1895-1945
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CDM 166: Topics in U.S. Film History (Theme: Contemporary Horror Films)
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CDM 001: Introduction to Film
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CDM 189: Special topics course on Comics & Print Media Culture

Conference panelist and comics programming contributor
2025 Highlights: Member-At-Large for the International Comic Arts Forum, Social Strategist for the Comics Studies Society, Marketing and Programming Co-Coordinator for The Latinx Comic Arts Festival, and keynote speaker at the Networked Narratives conference at SDSU.

Latina Feminist Media Studies scholar of U.S. pop culture
Recent publications include "From Conditional Belonging to Self-Definition" in Latinx Comics Studies (Rutgers UP), "Latinas Online Are 'Built Like This" in Girlhood Studies, and "Social Mediated Latinas in the Online Beauty Community" in The Meanings of Dress (Fairchild Books).