Nathan Rossi is an assistant professor of instruction in the Department of Radio/Television/Film and an affiliate of the Latina/o/x Studies Program. His research takes a critical/cultural studies approach and broadly focuses on Latinx, digital media, and Central American studies. His current book project is tentatively titled: Digital Mestizaje: Unsettling Latinidad Through New Media Genealogy. It considers the ways in which ancestry, genealogy, and the racial/ethnic identity of Latinx are increasingly being mediated by social media and digital technologies, such as DNA testing kits.
His work can be found in Latino Studies, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Communication and Race, Environmental Communication, the International Journal of Communication, NACLA, and Flow: A Forum on Culture and Media.
Recent Publications
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Down to Extract with Zac Efron and Ewan McGregor: How Streaming Travel Docuseries and Sustainability Discourses Map Racial Geographies in Central America. Environmental Communication, 2025, Vol. 19(5): 917-928.
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“Burn that Bridge": Theorizing Queer Brown Heartbreak in HBO’s Looking and the music of Omar Apollo. Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2025, Vol. 50(1): 55-80.
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"Am I White?": Race, Ethnicity, and Emotion in Latinx DNA Reaction Videos on YouTube. Communication and Race, 2025, Vol. 2(1): 30-46.
- Coming out of the Fog of War and Adoption Trauma: Central American Adoptees and Social Media Support Groups. International Journal of Communication, 2023, Vol. 17: 5402-5419.
- Julio Torres and the Queer Potentialities of U.S. Central American Representation. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 2022, pgs. 1-13.
- Hybrid Lives: The Digitally Mediated Identity of a Salvadoran Adoptee in the U.S. Latino Studies, 2022, Vol. 20(1): pgs. 50-66.