Laura-Zoë Humphreys is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Tulane University. She is the author of Fidel between the Lines: Paranoia and Ambivalence in Late Socialist Cuban Cinema(Duke UP, 2019). Fidel between the Lines combines ethnography, archival research, and close reading to examine the changing dynamics of public debate, censorship, and allegory in Cuba in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Dr. Humphreys has also researched and written about digital media piracy, urban sociability, and K-Pop in Cuba. Her work has been funded by the Wenner Gren, the Social Science Research Council, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, and the Fonds de recherche du Québec société et culture and has been published inSocial Text, the International Journal of Cultural Studies, and Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture.
