Olivia González

Assistant Professor

Olivia González is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication. Her research examines the politics of race, class, and gender within contemporary structures of media production and media education. Olivia’s current work explores screenwriters’ labor organizing, the entertainment industry’s role in the climate crisis, and abolitionist storytelling within and beyond Hollywood. Her work has been published in Critical Studies in Media Communication, Television and New Media, Lateral, and the International Journal of Communication.

Olivia also enjoys hiking, biking, playing and watching sports, and baking (pan dulce and sourdough are staples in her kitchen).

Courses

Media and Technology Studies (COMM 50)
Ecomedia and Sustainable Storytelling (COMM 105)
Approaches to Communication Research (COMM 4)

Publications

González, O. & Hatrick, J. (2025). Building power for alternative futures: Mapping an entertainment media path toward abolition democracy. Television & New Media.

Flores-Montano, C., González, O., Hernandez, M., Hernandez, T., Olivas, D., Ramirez, B., Santellano, K. & Villareal, C. (2025). “Latina PhD organizing, solidarity, and coping in nepantla. In G. González-López, S. Rudrappa & C. Smith (Eds.), World Making in Nepantla: Feminists of Color Navigating Life and Work in the Pandemic. Austin, TV: University of Texas Press.

Hatrick, J. & González, O. (2022). Watchmen, copaganda, and abolition futurities in US television. Lateral, 11(2).

González, O. (2021). Does it pay to get personal? Examining the prioritization of ‘telling your story’ in film school pedagogy and its implications for minoritized film industry aspirants. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 38(1), 46–60.

Bray, S., González, O. & Jonckheere, N. (2020). “Like a boss” or just bossy? How audiences across age and gender evaluate counter-stereotypical women on television. International Journal of Communication, 14, 5128–5149.

Stern, S. & González, O. (2018). “How are Internet practices embedded in teens’ everyday lives?” In S. R. Mazzarella & N.A. Jennings (Eds.), Twenty questions about youth and the media (2nd Ed.), New York, NY: Peter Lang.