Alexandra Sastre

Graduate Associate, Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality and Women

Bio

Alexandra Sastre is the Graduate Associate for the Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. Her research involves examining the body as a critical communicative tool, looking at the performance of race, gender and sexuality in digital media spaces and in realty television. Her work has been published in the journals Feminist Media Studies, Communication Culture and Critique, Celebrity Studies, and Visual Communication Quarterly.

Education

Alexandra Sastre is the Graduate Associate for the Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. Her research involves examining the body as a critical communicative tool, looking at the performance of race, gender and sexuality in digital media spaces and in realty television. Her work has been published in the journals Feminist Media Studies, Communication Culture and Critique, Celebrity Studies, and Visual Communication Quarterly.