Marelys Valencia’s research focuses on the cultural production of Cuban and Hispanic Caribbean diasporas in the US, language ideologies in US Latino television and media, post-revolutionary Cuba and narratives of identity and citizenship, and migration in the Americas from an interdisciplinary perspective. Before coming to Saint Mary's, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at the University of Miami. Her articles on Cuban media, documentary cinema and performance art, as well on Latinx in the US, have appeared in peer-review journals like Latin American Theatre Review, Cuadernos AISPI, Cuban Studies, Letras Femeninas, and Temas. The Routledge Handbook of Spanish in the Global City (2019) includes her chapter “The mass mediation of Spanish in Miami,” in collaboration with Andrew Lynch. In her previous life, Marelys worked for important media in Latin America (correspondent for Radio Cooperativa de Chile; editor of the Bolivian newspaper La Prensa; blogger for Yahoo Noticias, a journalist for the Cuban weekly Granma Internacional, etc.). Marelys is also a published poet.