Chris Campanioni is Lecturer of Creative Writing and Media Studies at Pace University. His work on migration and media theory has been awarded the Calder Prize for interdisciplinary research and a Mellon Foundation fellowship, and his writing has received the Pushcart Prize, International Latino Book Award, and Academy of American Poets College Prize. His essays, poetry, and fiction have been translated into Spanish and Portuguese and have found a home in several venues, including Diacritics, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Best American Essays, and Latin American Literature Today.