Podcasts & Interviews

Interviewed by Prof. Frederick Luis Aldama for his Latinx Pop Lab podcast, I discuss my relationship with Latinx pop culture from the 80s all the way to the current Selena series on Netflix and Los Espookys on HBO.

Tom McKenna from the Bread Loaf Teachers Network Journal interviews Cruz Medina on his summer 2018 Teaching Multimodal Writing in the Digital Age. The summer prior, Cruz received the M. Ruth Marino Chairs Award for innovative curriculum.

Trailer for the edited collection Racial Shorthand: Coded Discrimination Contested in Social Media.

In 2018, SCU's Associated Student Government invited Cruz to give a talk in their "Last Lecture" speaker series. This highlight video captures some of his early lessons on writing.

In this episode of the Pedagogue podcast, Cruz is interviewed by host Shane Woods on the topics of social justice and digital composing.

This video is an interview with Cruz Medina conducted by Computers and Composition Digital Press intern Kelly Wheeler on the digital collection that Medina co-edited with Octavio Pimentel called Racial Shorthand: Coded Discrimination Contested in Social Media.

This video is an episode of the "This Rhetorical Life" podcast out of Syracuse University, where Cruz Medina interviews writer Ana Castillo on issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, and her memoir Black Dove: Mama, Mijo and Me.

This is an episode of the Integral podcast, wherein Cruz Medina discusses his research on manifestations of racism in online discourses, including Twitter.

This video documents the "What is at Stake for Racial and Ethnic Justice" Roundtable Symposium for the Bannan Institute on Racial and Ethnic Justice at Santa Clara University.